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Penares sphaera (Lendenfeld, 1907) 
AphiaID: 169872

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Geodiidae (Family) > Erylinae (Subfamily) > Penares (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Penares Gray, 1867
Synonymised
taxa
  Papyrula sphaera Lendenfeld, 1907 (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Lendenfeld, R. Von 1907a. Die Tetraxonia. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf der Dampfer Valdivia 1898-1899 11(1-2): i-iv, 59-374, pls IX-XLVI. [details] [full text]

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: Uriz, M.J. 1988. Deep-water sponges from the continental shelf and slope off Namibia (Southwest Africa): Classses Hexactinellida and Demospongia. Monografías de Zoología Marina 3: 9-157. [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]

additional source: Lévi, C. 1964a. Spongiaires des zones bathyale, abyssale et hadale. Galathea Report. Scientific Results of The Danish Deep-Sea Expedition Round the World, 1950-52 7: 63-112, pls II-XI. [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Agulhas Bank [details]
Namaqua (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Namib [details]
Natal [details]
Port Nolloth [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
South African Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Still Bay [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:169872
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2005-09-09 16:45:37Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-10-31 19:25:17Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Penares sphaera (Lendenfeld, 1907). 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=169872 on 2013-05-25
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