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Poliopogon Thomson, 1878 
AphiaID: 171579

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Hexactinellida (Class) > Amphidiscophora (Subclass) > Amphidiscosida (Order) > Pheronematidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Poliopogon amadou Thomson, 1878 (type by monotypy)
Parent Pheronematidae Gray, 1870
Sources  original description: Thomson, C.W. (1873). The Depths of the Sea. (Macmillan and Co.: London): 1-527. [details]

original description: Thomson, C.W. 1878. Voyage of the 'Challenger'. The Atlantic. Volume 1. (Macmillan and Co.: London): ix-xxix, 1-424. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Tabachnick, K.; Menshenina, L.L. 2002. Family Pheronematidae Gray, 1870. Pp. 1267-1280. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details]

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taxa
[show all]		 Species Poliopogon amadou Thomson, 1878
Species Poliopogon claviculus Tabachnick & Lévi, 2000
Species Poliopogon maitai Tabachnick, 1988
Species Poliopogon mendocino Reiswig, 1999
Species Poliopogon micropentactinus Tabachnick & Lévi, 2000
Species Poliopogon zonecus Tabachnick & Lévi, 2000

Species Poliopogon amadow sensu Tabachnick & Menshenina, 2002 accepted as Poliopogon amadou Thomson, 1878
Species Poliopogon gigas Schulze, 1886 accepted as Schulzeviella gigas (Schulze, 1886)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
Images 
Poliopogon amadou
[image from typetaxon]
Poliopogon amadou
added on 2009-12-11 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2009-12-11 22:56:41

Spicules of Poliopogon amadou
[image from typetaxon]
Spicules of Poliopogon amadou
added on 2010-08-25 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2010-08-25 15:38:05
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:171579
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2008-10-16 18:15:19Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2009-12-11 13:18:49Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Poliopogon Thomson, 1878. 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=171579 on 2013-05-21
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