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Desmacidon australis Dendy, 1896 
AphiaID: 190857

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Myxillina (Suborder) > Desmacididae (Family) > Desmacidon (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (genus transfer)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Chondropsis australis (Dendy, 1896)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Burtonispongia de Laubenfels, 1936
Parent Desmacidon Bowerbank, 1861
Sources  original description: Dendy, A. 1896. Catalogue of Non-Calcareous Sponges collected by J. Bracebridge Wilson, Esq., M.A., in the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads. Part II. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (New Series) 8: 14-51. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Chondropsidae Carter, 1886. Pp. 521-527. 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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Notes  This is the type species of Burtonispongia de Laubenfels, 1936 which is junior synonym of Chondropsis. [details]

Type locality: Victoria, South Australia [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:190857
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-12-18 15:00:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-01-16 19:00:03Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2006-12-10 14:42:06Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Desmacidon australis Dendy, 1896. 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=190857 on 2013-05-24
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