WoRMS taxon details
Polymastia megasclera Burton, 1934
AphiaID: 170649
AphiaID: 170649
| 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: Burton, M. 1934a. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29 4 (14): 513-621, pls 1-2. [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] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Central and Southern Great Barrier Reef [details] East African Coral Coast [details] Mombasa [details] Ras Iwetine [details] | ||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Holotype: BMNH [details] Type locality: Great Barrier Reef [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170649 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Polymastia megasclera Burton, 1934. 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=170649 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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