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Polymastia arctica (Merejkowsky, 1878) 
AphiaID: 170625

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Polymastiidae (Family) > Polymastia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Polymastia Bowerbank, 1864
Synonymised
taxa
  Rinalda arctica Merejkowsky, 1878 (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Merejkowsky, C. 1878. Preliminary account on sponges of the White Sea. Trudÿ Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago obschestva estestvoispÿtateleï 1878: 249-270. [details] [full text]

original description: Merejkowsky, C. 1879. Études sur les Éponges de la Mer Blanche. Mémoires de l’Académie Impériale des sciences de St. Pétersbourg (7)26(7): 1-51, pls I-III. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Plotkin, A.S.; Boury-Esnault, N. 2004. Alleged cosmopolitanism in sponges: the example of a common Arctic Polymastia (Porifera, Demospongiae, Hadromerida). Zoosystema 26 (1): 13-20. [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Russian Exclusive economic Zone [Arctic part] (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
White Sea [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170625
Taxonomic
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2006-08-21 13:42:41Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Polymastia arctica (Merejkowsky, 1878). 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=170625 on 2013-05-23
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