WoRMS taxon details
Verongula rigida (Esper, 1794)
AphiaID: 169675
AphiaID: 169675
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Verongida (Order) > Aplysinidae (Family) > Verongula (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Verongula Verrill, 1907 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Spongia rigida Esper, 1794 (genus transfer) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Esper, E.C.J. 1794. Die Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet, nebst Beschreibungen. Zweyter Theil. (Raspe: Nürnberg):1-303. page(s): 247-248 [details] basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1978. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part I. Keratosa. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 94. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 56 (179): 1–94. page(s): 67-69 [details] [full text] additional source: Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | type locality: Tropical Northwestern Atlantic [details] Bahamian [details] Belize [details] Bonaire [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cayman Islands [details] Colombia [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Eastern Caribbean [details] Greater Antilles [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Jamaica [details] Mexico [details] Northern Gulf of Mexico [details] Panama [details] Southern Caribbean [details] Southwestern Caribbean [details] Tropical Northwestern Atlantic [details] United States part of the Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Venezuela [details] Virgin Islands [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 10 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To Sponge Barcoding Database (Verongula rigida) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Verongula rigida) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Verongula rigida) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Verongula rigida) To The Sponge Guide To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:169675 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Verongula rigida (Esper, 1794). 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=169675 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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