WoRMS taxon details
Microscleroderma Kirkpatrick, 1903
AphiaID: 171186
AphiaID: 171186
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > 'Lithistida' (Order) > Scleritodermidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Microscleroderma hirsutum Kirkpatrick, 1903 (type by monotypy) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Scleritodermidae Sollas, 1888 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Seliscothon sensu Döderlein, 1884 (misidentification) Taprobane Dendy, 1905 (junior synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Kirkpatrick, R. 1903a. Descriptions of South African Sponges. Part II.Marine Investigations in South Africa 2(14): 171-180, pl. IV. [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: Kelly, M. (2009). Demospongiae, Calcarea (Porifera). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] from synonym: Döderlein, L. 1884. Studien an japanischen Lithistiden. Zeitschrift fürwissenschaftliche Zoologie 40(1): 62-104, pls V-VII. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Dendy, A. 1905. Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman,at Ceylon, in 1902. Pp. 57-246, pls I-XVI. In: Herdman, W.A. (Ed.), Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. 3(Supplement 18). (Royal Society: London). [details] [view taxon] [full text] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Microscleroderma chonelleides (Döderlein, 1884) Species Microscleroderma herdmani (Dendy, 1905) Species Microscleroderma hirsutum Kirkpatrick, 1903 Species Microscleroderma lamina Perez, Vacelet, Bitar & Zibrowius, 2004 Species Microscleroderma novaezelandiae Kelly, 2007 Species Microscleroderma spirophora (Lévi, 1960) Species Microscleroderma stoneae Lévi & Lévi, 1983 Species Microscleroderma stonea Lévi & Lévi, 1983 accepted as Microscleroderma stoneae Lévi & Lévi, 1983 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Natal [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:171186 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Microscleroderma Kirkpatrick, 1903. 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=171186 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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