WoRMS taxon details
Psammochela fibrosa (Ridley, 1884)
AphiaID: 169504
AphiaID: 169504
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Myxillina (Suborder) > Myxillidae (Family) > Psammochela (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Psammochela Dendy, 1916 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Phoriospongia fibrosa Ridley, 1884 (genus transfer) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Ridley, S.O. 1884a. Spongiida. Pp. 366-482, pls 39-43; 582-630, pls 53-54. In: Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert’, 1881-2. (British Museum (Natural History): London). [details] [full text]
basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Myxillidae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 602-620. 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] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Australia [details] Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Torres Strait Northern Great Barrier Reef [details] | ||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | ||||||||||
| Note |
This is a suspect Psammochela as the chelae are tridentate. Burton (1934) considered this species to be a senior synonym of Psammochela elegans, but this seems unlikely. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:169504 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Psammochela fibrosa (Ridley, 1884). 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=169504 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||
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