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Stenospongia Burton, 1928 
AphiaID: 184910

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Irciniidae (Family)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (junior synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Sarcotragus Schmidt, 1862
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Stenospongia aligera Burton, 1928 (type by monotypy)
Parent Irciniidae Gray, 1867
Sources  original description: Burton, M. 1928a. Report on some Deep-Sea Sponges from the Indian Museum collected by R.I.M.S. ‘Investigator’. Part II. Tetraxonida (concluded) and Euceratosa. Records of the Indian Museum 30 (1): 109-138, pls I-II. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Cook, S.D.C.; Bergquist, P.R. 2002. Family Irciniidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 1022-1027. 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]

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Species Stenospongia aligera Burton, 1928 accepted as Sarcotragus aliger (Burton, 1928)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Note  Synonymy is based on Bergquist, 1980 and Cook & Bergquist, 2002, but no comment on the synonymy was provide by these authors. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:184910
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-12-12 17:12:35Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-02-01 19:04:21Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2008-04-24 06:22:35Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Stenospongia Burton, 1928. 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=184910 on 2013-06-19
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