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Alcyonium cuspidiferum Lamarck, 1815 
AphiaID: 189892

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Tethyidae (Family) > Alcyonium (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (genus transfer)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Cervicornia cuspidifera (Lamarck, 1815)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Cervicornia Rützler & Hooper, 2000
Parent Alcyonium sensu Pallas, 1766 accepted as Tethya Lamarck, 1815
Sources  original description: Lamarck, J.B.P. De Monet, Comte De 1815 [1814]. Suite des polypiers empâtés. Mémoires du Muséum d’Histoire naturelle, Paris 1: 69-80, 162-168, 331-340. [details]

basis of record: Rützler, K.; Hooper, J.N.A. 2000. Two new genera of Hadromerid sponges (Porifera, Demospongiae). Zoosystema 22(2): 337-3444. [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Caribbean Sea [details]
Specimen  Holotype: MNHN DT 652 [details]
Link To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:189892
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-12-18 15:00:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-08-07 17:38:25Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2008-07-20 12:55:31Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Alcyonium cuspidiferum Lamarck, 1815. 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=189892 on 2013-05-22
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