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Thenea grayi Sollas, 1886 
AphiaID: 170295

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Theneidae (Family) > Thenea (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Thenea Gray, 1867
Sources  original description: Sollas, W.J. 1886a. Preliminary account of the Tetractinellid sponges Dredged by H.M.S. ‘Challenger’ 1872-76. Part I. The Choristida. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society (new series) 5:177-199. [details] [full text]

original description: Sollas, W.J. 1888. Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, 1873-1876. Zoology 25(63): 1-458, pls I-XLIV, 1 map. [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]

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

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 Variety Thenea grayi var. lateralis Thiele, 1898
Variety Thenea grayi var. sulcata Wilson, 1925
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution type locality: Manning-Hawkesbury [details]
Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Africa (not certain[details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
Notes  Holotype: BMNH [details]

Type locality: Sydney [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170295
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2010-02-14 13:23:48Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Thenea grayi Sollas, 1886. 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=170295 on 2013-05-19
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