WoRMS taxon details
Microscleroderma herdmani (Dendy, 1905)
AphiaID: 171188
AphiaID: 171188
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > 'Lithistida' (Order) > Scleritodermidae (Family) > Microscleroderma (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Microscleroderma Kirkpatrick, 1903 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Taprobane herdmani Dendy, 1905 (genus transfer) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: 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] [full text]
additional source: Lévi, C.; Lévi, P. 1983a. Eponges Tétractinellides et Lithistides bathyales de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Bulletin du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (4) 5(1): 101-168. [details] additional source: Perez, T.; Vacelet, J.; Bitar, G.; Zibrowius, H. (2004). Two new lithistids (Porifera: Demospongiae) from a shallow eastern Mediterranean cave (Lebanon). J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 84(1): 15-24. (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Burton, M. 1928a. Report on some Deep-Sea Sponges from the Indian Museum collected by R.I.M.S. ‘Investigator’. Part II. Tetraxonida (concluded) and Euceratosa. Records of the Indian Museum 30 (1): 109-138, pls I-II. [details] [view taxon] [full text] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Andaman Sea Coral Coast (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] New Caledonia [details] Philippines [details] Seychelles [details] South India and Sri Lanka [details] Sri Lankan Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | ||||||||||
| Note |
Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:171188 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Microscleroderma herdmani (Dendy, 1905). 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=171188 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||
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