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Callipelta Sollas, 1888 
AphiaID: 171128

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > 'Lithistida' (Order) > Neopeltidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Callipelta ornata Sollas, 1888 (type by monotypy)
Parent Neopeltidae Sollas, 1888
Sources  original description: Sollas, W.J. 1888. Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, 1873-1876. Zoology 25(63): 1-458, pls I-XLIV, 1 map. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Pisera, A.; Lévi, C. 2002. Family Neopeltidae Sollas, 1888. Pp. 344-351. 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]

additional source: Vacelet, J.; Vasseur, P. 1971. Éponges des récifs coralliens de Tuléar (Madagascar). Téthys, Supplément 1: 51-126. [details] [full text]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Callipelta cavernicola (Vacelet & Vasseur, 1965)
Species Callipelta mixta Vacelet, Vasseur & Lévi, 1976
Species Callipelta ornata Sollas, 1888
Species Callipelta punctata Lévi & Lévi, 1983
Species Callipelta sollasi Lévi & Lévi, 1989
Species Callipelta thoosa Lévi, 1964
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Anakao [details]
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:171128
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2006-12-02 18:07:24Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Callipelta Sollas, 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=171128 on 2013-05-22
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