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Vetulina stalactites Schmidt, 1879 
AphiaID: 171268

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > 'Lithistida' (Order) > Vetulinidae (Family) > Vetulina (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Vetulina Schmidt, 1879
Parent Vetulina 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 Vetulinidae Lendenfeld, 1903. Pp. 363-365. 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, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Barbados [details]
Barbados Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Eastern Caribbean [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Specimens  Unknown type: MNHN DT 2204, locality Barbados [details]
Syntype: ZMUB , locality Eastern Caribbean (Barbados) [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
Notes  Holotype: MCZ 6640, 6642, 6644 [details]

Type locality: Barbados [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:171268
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2006-11-25 14:37:07Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Vetulina stalactites 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=171268 on 2013-06-18
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