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Stegxella Bowerbank, 1874 
AphiaID: 184905

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Myxillina (Suborder) > Hymedesmiidae (Family)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (nomen nudum and junior synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Hymedesmia (Hymedesmia) Bowerbank, 1864
Rank Genus
Parent Hymedesmiidae Topsent, 1928
Sources  original description: Bowerbank, J.S. 1874b. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae.Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-306-47260-0. xix, 1-1101, 1103-1706 (2 volumes) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Hymedesmiidae. In:Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera, a guide to the classification of sponges. Pp 575-593. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York. [details]

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Species Stegxella saccea Schmidt, 1864 accepted as Hymedesmia (Hymedesmia) saccea (Schmidt, 1864)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Note  Technically a nomen nudum, since the type species quoted by Bowerbank has never been described. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:184905
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-12-12 17:12:35Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-02-06 18:34:25Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Stegxella Bowerbank, 1874. 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=184905 on 2013-06-19
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