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Crella chelifera van Soest, 1984 
AphiaID: 169030

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Myxillina (Suborder) > Crellidae (Family) > Crella (Genus)
Status alternate representation (subgenus assignment)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Crella (Pytheas) chelifera van Soest, 1984
Rank Species
Parent Crella Gray, 1867
Sources  original description: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1984b. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part III. Poecilosclerida. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 112. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 62 (191): 1-173. [details] [full text]

additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stentoft, N. 1988. Barbados Deep-Water Sponges. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 122. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao andother Caribbean Islands, 70(215): 1-175. [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Barbados [details]
Barbados Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Cuba [details]
Specimen  Holotype: ZMA Por. 04565, locality Eastern Caribbean (Barbados, 0.5 mile of Holetown, bottom muddy sand, encrusting on Agelas schmidti) [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:169030
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2007-04-07 12:52:30Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Crella chelifera van Soest, 1984. 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=169030 on 2013-05-20
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