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Myxilla (Myxilla) mexicensis Dickinson, 1945 
AphiaID: 169476

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Myxillina (Suborder) > Myxillidae (Family) > Myxilla (Genus) > Myxilla (Myxilla) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Myxilla (Myxilla) Schmidt, 1862
Synonymised
taxa
  Myxilla mexicensis Dickinson, 1945 (subgenus assignment)
Sources  original description: Dickinson, M.G. 1945. Sponges of the Gulf of California. Pp. 1-55, pls1-97. In: Reports on the collections obtained by Alan Hancock Pacific Expeditions of Velero III off the coast of Mexico, Central America, South America, and Galapagos Islands in 1932, in 1933, in 1934, in 1935, in 1936, in 1937, in 1939, and 1940. The University of Southern California Press, Los Angeles. [details]

basis of record: Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Van Soest, R.W.M. 1996. A review of Iophonidae, Myxillidae and Tedaniidae occurring in the South East Pacific (Porifera: Poecilosclerida). Revue suisse de Zoologie 103(1): 3-79. [details]

additional source: Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Van Soest, R.W.M. 1997. Shallow water Demosponges of the Galápagos Islands. Revue suisse de Zoologie 104(2): 379-467. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Cortezian [details]
Galapagos Islands [details]
Mexican part of the North Pacific Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:169476
Taxonomic
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2007-06-01 18:04:47Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Myxilla (Myxilla) mexicensis Dickinson, 1945. 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=169476 on 2013-06-19
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