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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMyxilla (Ectyomyxilla) methanophila (Maldonado & Young, 1998) 
AphiaID: 169436

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPorifera (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDemospongiae (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPoecilosclerida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMyxillina (Suborder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMyxillidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMyxilla (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMyxilla (Ectyomyxilla) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMyxilla (Ectyomyxilla) Hentschel, 1914
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEctyomyxilla methanophila Maldonado & Young, 1998 (genus transfer)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMyxilla methanophila (Maldonado & Young, 1998) (subgenus assignment)
Sources  original description Maldonado, M.; Young, C.M. 1998a. A new species of Poecilosclerid sponge (Porifera) from bathyal methane seeps in the Gulfof Mexico. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 78: 795-806. [details]

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Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution 
From editor or global species database
Gulf of Mexico
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGulf of Mexico [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
(no group)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNorthern Gulf of Mexico [details]
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Gulf of Mexico
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorGulf of Mexico [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorUnited States part of the Gulf of Mexico [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Specimens  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHolotype USNM 39721, locality Northern Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of Mexico, Lousiana slope, Bush Hill, Green Canyon) [details]

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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:169436
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2005-09-09 16:45:37Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-12-31 13:27:17Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2014). Myxilla (Ectyomyxilla) methanophila (Maldonado & Young, 1998). 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.; Cárdenas, P. (2014) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=169436 on 2014-04-18
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