WoRMS taxon details
Halicometes stellata (Schmidt, 1870)
AphiaID: 170913
AphiaID: 170913
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Tethyidae (Family) > Halicometes (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Halicometes Topsent, 1898 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cometella stellata Schmidt, 1870 (genus transfer) Tethya caudata Deszö, 1879 (genus transfer & junior synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Schmidt, O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI. [details] [full text]
additional source: Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1950a. The Porifera of the Bermuda Archipelago. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 27(1):1-154, pls I-II. [details] [full text] from synonym: Deszö, B. 1879. Die Histiologie und Sprossenentwicklung der Tethyen. Archiv für Mikroskopische Anatomie 16. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Bermuda [details] Cuba [details] Cuban Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Mexico [details] United States part of the Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Specimen | Unknown type (from synonym): ZMUB , locality Greater Antilles [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170913 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Halicometes stellata (Schmidt, 1870). 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=170913 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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