WoRMS taxon details
Geodia senegalensis Topsent, 1891
AphiaID: 170174
AphiaID: 170174
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Geodiidae (Family) > Geodiinae (Subfamily) > Geodia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Geodia Lamarck, 1815 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Geodia barretti var. senegalensis Topsent, 1891 (elevation to species rank) Sidonops senegalensis (Topsent, 1891) (genus transfer) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Topsent, E. 1891b. Voyage de la Goëlette ‘Melita’ aux Canaries et au Sénégal, 1889-1890. Spongiaires. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 4: 11-15, pl. II. [details] [full text]
additional source: Burton, M. 1956. The sponges of West Africa. Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen) 4: 111-147. [details] from synonym: Lévi, C. 1952. Spongiaires de la côte du Sénégal. Bulletin de l’Institut français d’Afrique noire (A. Sciences naturelles) 14(1): 34-59. [details] [view taxon] [full text] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Sahelian Upwelling [details] Senegalese Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] West Africa [details] | ||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | ||||||||||
| Notes |
According to Lendenfeld (1903) this is a Sidonops. [details] Type locality: Senegal [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170174 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Geodia senegalensis Topsent, 1891. 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=170174 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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