WoRMS taxon details
Aciculites higginsii Schmidt, 1879
AphiaID: 171177
AphiaID: 171177
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > 'Lithistida' (Order) > Scleritodermidae (Family) > Aciculites (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Aciculites Schmidt, 1879 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Aciculites Schmidt, 1879 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Schmidt, O. 1879. Die Spongien des Meerbusen von Mexico (Und des caraibischen Meeres). Abtheilung I. Heft I. Pp. 1-32, pls I-IV. In:Reports on the dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, by the USCSS ‘Blake’. (Gustav Fischer: Jena). [details] [full text]
basis of record: Pisera, A.; Lévi, C. 2002. Family Scleritodermidae Sollas, 1888. Pp. 302-311. 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: 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: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stentoft, N. 1988. Barbados Deep-Water Sponges. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 122. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao andother Caribbean Islands, 70(215): 1-175. [details] [full text] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Barbados Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cuba [details] Cuban Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Eastern Caribbean [details] Greater Antilles [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Northern Gulf of Mexico [details] | |||||||||||||
| Specimens |
Holotype: MZS Po 153, locality Greater Antilles (Cuba, Havana) [details]
Unknown type: MNHN DT 2200, locality Havana [details] | |||||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:171177 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Aciculites higginsii Schmidt, 1879. 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=171177 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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