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Polymastia zitteli (Lendenfeld, 1888) 
AphiaID: 170663

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		  Sideroderma zitteli Lendenfeld, 1888 (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Lendenfeld, R. Von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sidney. (Taylor & Francis: London): i-xiv, 1-260, pls 1-12. [details] [full text]

additional source: Plotkin, A. S.; Janussen, D. 2008: Polymastiidae and Suberitidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) of the deep Weddell Sea, Antarctic.- Zootaxa 1866: 95-135. [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Antarctic Peninsula [details]
Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Weddell Sea [details]
Specimen  Nontype: SMF 10557, locality Antarctic Peninsula (NW Weddel Sea) [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170663
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2010-05-31 13:43:21Z  checked  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Polymastia zitteli (Lendenfeld, 1888). 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=170663 on 2013-05-24
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