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Amphimedon variabilis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 
AphiaID: 189947

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Haplosclerina (Suborder) > Niphatidae (Family) > Amphimedon (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (genus transfer)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Dysidea variabilis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Rank Species
Parent Amphimedon Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Sources  original description: Duchassaing De Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1978. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part I. Keratosa. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 94. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 56 (179): 1–94. [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Virgin Islands [details]
Specimen  Lectotype: MSNT Por. 37, locality Eastern Caribbean (St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands) [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
Note  Type locality: Virgin Islands [details]
Images 
Amphimedon variabilis Duch. & Mich. original image
Amphimedon variabilis Duch. & Mich. original image
added on 2012-05-29 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2012-05-29 17:53:26

Amphimedon variabilis lectotype
Amphimedon variabilis lectotype
added on 2012-05-29 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2012-05-29 17:57:46
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:189947
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-12-18 15:00:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-11-19 14:55:05Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Amphimedon variabilis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864. 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=189947 on 2013-06-18
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