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Microcordyla asteriae Zirpolo, 1927 
AphiaID: 170719

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Echinidea (Infraorder) > Parechinidae (Family) > Microcordyla (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (based on echinoid pedicellariae misinterpreted as sponge)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Microcordyla Zirpolo, 1927
Parent Microcordyla Zirpolo, 1927 accepted as Paracentrotus Mortensen, 1903b
Sources  original description: Zirpolo, G. 1927 [1926]. Di una nuova Silicospugna del Golfo di Napoli (Microcordyla asteriae n.g. n.sp.). Bolletino della Società dei Naturalisti in Napoli (2) 38(18): 287-290. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Stylocordylidae Topsent, 1892. Pp. 224-226. 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]

status source: Mortensen, T. 1932. Über den angeblichen Kieselschwamm Microcordyla Asteriæ Zirpolo. Zoologischer Anzeiger 97, 197.
page(s): 197 [details]

status source: Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 3. Camarodonta. II. Echinidæ, Strongylocentrotidæ, Parasaleniidæ, Echinometridæ, pp. 446. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen.
page(s): 167 [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Italian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Notes  This is probably not a sponge. [details]

Status: Microcordyla asteriae Zirpulo, 1927 is based on detached globiferous pedicellariae of Paracentrotus lividus misinterpreted as silicious sponge parasitic on asteroids (see Mortensen, 1932: p. 197, 1943: p. 167). [details]

Type locality: Italy [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170719
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2010-05-30 09:12:59Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2011-03-25 12:29:52Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Microcordyla asteriae Zirpolo, 1927. In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=170719 on 2013-05-18
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