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Plakortis quasiamphiaster Díaz & van Soest, 1994 
AphiaID: 169770

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Homoscleromorpha (Class) > Homosclerophorida (Order) > Plakinidae (Family) > Plakortis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Plakortis Schulze, 1880
Sources  original description: Díaz, M.C.; Van Soest, R.W.M. 1994. The Plakinidae: A systematic review. Pp. 93-109. In: van Soest, R.W.M., van Kempen, Th.M.G. & Braekman, J.-C. (Eds), Sponges in Time and Space.(Balkema: Rotterdam): 1-515. [details]

additional source: Muricy, G. 2011. Diversity of Indo-Australian Plakortis (Demospongiae: Plakinidae), with description of four new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 91(2): 303–319. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution type locality: Vanuatu [details]
Fiji Islands [details]
Tonga Islands [details]
Vanuatu Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Specimen  Holotype: ZMA Por.07777, locality Vanuatu (South Pacific) [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes  Holotype: ZMA Por. 7777 [details]

Type locality: Vanuatu [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:169770
Taxonomic
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2009-03-27 08:42:07Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Plakortis quasiamphiaster. 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=169770 on 2013-06-19
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