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Polymastia fusca Bergquist, 1961 
AphiaID: 170633

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
Sources  original description: Bergquist, P.R. 1961c. A collection of Porifera from Northern New Zealand, with Descriptions of Seventeen New Species. Pacific Science 15(1): 33-48. [details]

basis of record: Bergquist, P.R. 1968. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 1. (Tetractinomorpha and Lithistida). New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin [New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 37] 188: 1-105. [details] [full text]

additional source: Kelly, M. (2009). Demospongiae, Calcarea (Porifera). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Northeastern New Zealand [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Note  Type locality: New Zealand, Northern New Zealand, Burgess Bay, Kawau Island, Ahipara Bay & Spirits Bay [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170633
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2006-06-01 06:35:16Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Polymastia fusca Bergquist, 1961. 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=170633 on 2013-05-23
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