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Asteropus haeckeli Dendy, 1905 
AphiaID: 190109

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Ancorinidae (Family) > Asteropus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Asteropus Sollas, 1888
Source  original description: Dendy, A. 1905. Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman,at Ceylon, in 1902. Pp. 57-246, pls I-XVI. In: Herdman, W.A. (Ed.), Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. 3(Supplement 18). (Royal Society: London). [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution South India and Sri Lanka [details]
Sri Lanka [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes  This was synonymized with Asteropus simplex by Hentschel (1909) and Dendy himself (1916), but in view of the different oxea size ranges of A. haeckeli and A. simplex the synonymy is not accepted here. [details]

Holotype: BMNH [details]

Type locality: Gulf of Manaar, Sri Lanka [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:190109
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-12-18 15:00:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-03-14 10:56:55Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Asteropus haeckeli Dendy, 1905. 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=190109 on 2013-05-22
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