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Ancorina corticata Lévi, 1964 
AphiaID: 169777

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Ancorinidae (Family) > Ancorina (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Ancorina Schmidt, 1862
Sources  original description: Lévi, C. 1964b. Spongiaires du canal de Mozambique. Bulletin du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (2) 36(3): 384-395. [details]

basis of record: Lévi, C. (1967). Spongiaires d'Afrique du Sud. (3) Tetractinellides. Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr. 37: 227-256, pls XVII-XIX (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Samaai, T. 2006. Biodiversity "hotspots", patterns of richness and endemism, and distribution of marine sponges in South Africa based on actual and interpolation data: A comparative approach. Zootaxa 1358: 1-37. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Agulhas Bank [details]
Cape Town [details]
Delagoa [details]
False Bay [details]
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Natal [details]
Saldanha Bay [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes  This is a junior homonym of A. corticata (Carter, 1879 as Stellettinopsis), now returned to its original genus Stellettinopsis.  [details]

Holotype: MNHN [details]

Type locality: Inhaca Island, Mozambique [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:169777
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2008-06-15 19:42:51Z  checked  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Ancorina corticata Lévi, 1964. 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=169777 on 2013-05-23
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