WoRMS taxon details
Gastrophanella implexa Schmidt, 1879
AphiaID: 171202
AphiaID: 171202
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > 'Lithistida' (Order) > Siphonidiidae (Family) > Gastrophanella (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Gastrophanella Schmidt, 1879 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Gastrophanella 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 Siphonidiidae Lendenfeld, 1903. Pp. 338-343. 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, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Barbados [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 |
Unknown type: MNHN DT 2191, locality Gulf of Mexico [details]
Holotype: MCZ 6232, locality Northern Gulf of Mexico (Between Cuba and Florida) [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection | ||||||||||
| Note |
Van Soest & Stentoft (1988) included vase- and earshaped specimens in the variation of this species (next to the usual tube-shaped specimens). According to Pisera & Levi (2002) the former are probably members of a separate closely related species. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:171202 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Gastrophanella implexa 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=171202 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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