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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDiscodermia aspera Carter, 1880 
AphiaID: 171212

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPorifera (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDemospongiae (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editor'Lithistida' (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTheonellidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDiscodermia (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDiscodermia aspera (Species)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDiscodermia du Bocage, 1869
Sources  original description Carter, H.J. 1880b. Report on Specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar and presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt.W.H. Cawne Warren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 6(31):35-61, pls IV-VI; 129-156, pls VII, VIII. [details] [full text]

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Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution  Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editortype locality Gulf of Mannar [details]
From editor or global species database
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSouth India and Sri Lanka [details]
From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorIndian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
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From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorType locality Gulf of Manaar [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:171212
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2006-11-25 18:55:41Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2014). Discodermia aspera Carter, 1880. 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.; Díaz, M.-C.; Cárdenas, P. (2014) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=171212 on 2015-03-04
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