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Delectona higgini (Carter, 1880) 
AphiaID: 170401

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Thoosidae (Family) > Delectona (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Delectona de Laubenfels, 1936
Synonymised
taxa		  Alectona higgini Carter, 1880
Sources  original description: Carter, H.J. 1880b. Report on Specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar and presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt.W.H. Cawne Warren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 6(31):35-61, pls IV-VI; 129-156, pls VII, VIII. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Rützler, K. 2002. Family Alectonidae Rosell, 1996. Pp. 281-290. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution type locality: South India and Sri Lanka [details]
Gulf of Mannar [details]
Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170401
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2005-07-27 15:04:39Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2005-09-09 16:45:37Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-04-19 13:48:59Z  checked  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Delectona higgini (Carter, 1880). 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=170401 on 2013-06-20
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