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Lithochela conica Burton, 1929 
AphiaID: 169013

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Myxillina (Suborder) > Crambeidae (Family) > Lithochela (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Lithochela Burton, 1929
Parent Lithochela Burton, 1929
Sources  original description: Burton, M. 1929b. Description of South African sponges collected in the South African Marine Survey. Part II. The ‘Lithistidae’, with critical survey of the desma-forming sponges. Fisheries Bulletin. Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey Division, Union of South Africa Report 7. Special Report 2: 1-12. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Crambeidae Lévi, 1963. Pp. 547-555. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details]

additional source: Samaai, T. 2006. Biodiversity "hotspots", patterns of richness and endemism, and distribution of marine sponges in South Africa based on actual and interpolation data: A comparative approach. Zootaxa 1358: 1-37. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Natal [details]
South African Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
South Coast of Hangklip [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes  Holotype: BMNH 1926.4.14.103 [details]

Type locality: Natal, South Africa [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:169013
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2006-10-28 17:01:36Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2007-04-03 09:09:18Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Lithochela conica Burton, 1929. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M. (2013) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=169013 on 2013-05-19
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