WoRMS taxon details
Placospongia melobesioides Gray, 1867
AphiaID: 170615
AphiaID: 170615
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Placospongiidae (Family) > Placospongia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Placospongia Gray, 1867 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Placospongia Gray, 1867 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Gray, J.E. 1867b. On Placospongia, a new generic form of Spongiadae in the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867 (1): 127-129. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Rützler, K. 2002. Family Placospongiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 196-200. 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] additional source: Barnes D.K.A.; Bell, J.J. (2002) Coastal sponge communities of the West Indian Ocean: taxonomic affinities, richness and diversity. Afr. J. Ecol. 40: 337-349 [details] additional source: Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: Pulitzer-Finali, G. 1993. A collection of marine sponges from East Africa. Annales Museo Civico Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 89: 247-350. [details] additional source: Bergquist, P.R. 1965. The Sponges of Micronesia, Part I. The Palau Archipelago. Pacific Science 19(2): 123-204. [details] additional source: Topsent, E. 1897a. Spongiaires de la Baie d’Amboine. (Voyage de MM. M. Bedot et C. Pictet dans l’Archipel Malais). Revue suisse de Zoologie 4: 421-487, pls 18-21. [details] [full text] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Anakao [details] Banda Sea [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Chapani Island [details] Costa Rica [details] East African Coral Coast [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Indonesia [details] Inhaca Island [details] Malindi [details] Mombasa [details] Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Palawan/North Borneo [details] Quirimba Archipelago [details] Ras Iwetine [details] Shelly Beach (Mombasa) [details] West Caroline Islands [details] Zanzibar [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Description: Thinly encrusting sponge, 5-10 cm wide, 5 mm thick. Surface composed of rough armoured polygonal plates with raised edges (surface contracts when touched and gaps between plates close). Sandpapery feel; dark blackish-brown, maroonish-black interior. Habitat: eulittoral rocky flats, between and on coral rubble, in crevices. Distribution: Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1997). [details] Holotype: BMNH 52.4.1.14 [details] Type locality: Borneo [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170615 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Placospongia melobesioides Gray, 1867. 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=170615 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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