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Psammochela rigida (Bowerbank, 1875) 
AphiaID: 169506

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		  Halichondria rigida Bowerbank, 1875 (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Bowerbank, J.S. 1875b. Contributions to a General History of the Spongiadae. Part VII. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1875: 281-296. [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, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Malacca Strait [details]
Singapore (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:169506
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2007-05-27 08:52:10Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Psammochela rigida (Bowerbank, 1875). 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=169506 on 2013-05-22
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