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Desmacidon jeffreysii Bowerbank, 1866 
AphiaID: 190873

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Myxillina (Suborder) > Desmacididae (Family) > Desmacidon (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Oceanapia robusta (Bowerbank, 1866)
Rank Species
Parent Desmacidon Bowerbank, 1861
Sources  original description: Bowerbank, J.S. 1866a. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. (look up in IMIS) [details] [full text]

basis of record: de Weerdt, W.H. 1985. A systematic revision of the north-eastern Atlantic shallow-water Haplosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae): 1. Introduction, Oceanapiidae and Petrosiidae. Beaufortia 35(5): 61-91 (look up in IMIS) [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution East Greenland [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Link To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
Note  Type locality: Shetland [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:190873
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-12-18 15:00:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-01-17 14:06:08Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Desmacidon jeffreysii Bowerbank, 1866. 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=190873 on 2013-05-25
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