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Asteropus kaena (de Laubenfels, 1957) 
AphiaID: 169789

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Ancorinidae (Family) > Asteropus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Asteropus Sollas, 1888
Synonymised
taxa		  Stellettinopsis kaena de Laubenfels, 1957 (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1957a. New Species and Records of Hawaiian Sponges. Pacific Science 11: 236-251. [details]

additional source: Hajdu, E.; Van Soest, R.W.M. 1992. A revision of Atlantic Asteropus Sollas, 1888 (Demospongiae), including a description of three new species, and with a review of the family Coppatiidae Topsent, 1898. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 62(1): 3-19. [details] [full text]

basis of record (from synonym): Uriz, M.J. (2002). Family Ancorinidae Schmidt, 1870, in: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. pp. 108-126 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution type locality: Hawaii [details]
Hawaii (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:169789
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2008-06-16 13:30:27Z  checked  van Soest, Rob
2008-06-29 17:47:26Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Asteropus kaena (de Laubenfels, 1957). 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=169789 on 2013-06-19
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