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Geodia imperfecta Bowerbank, 1874 
AphiaID: 191318

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Geodiidae (Family) > Geodiinae (Subfamily) > Geodia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Geodia Lamarck, 1815
Synonymised
taxa		  Isops imperfecta (Bowerbank, 1874)
Sources  original description: Bowerbank, J.S. 1874a. Contributions to a General History of the Spongiadae. Part VI. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874: 298-305, pls XLVI-XLVII. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Sollas, W.J. 1888. Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, 1873-1876. Zoology 25(63): 1-458, pls I-XLIV, 1 map. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Cárdenas P, Xavier JR, Reveillaud J, Schander C, Rapp HT (2011) Molecular Phylogeny of the Astrophorida (Porifera, Demospongiae) Reveals an Unexpected High Level of Spicule Homoplasy. PLoS ONE 6(4) , available online at http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0018318 [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Fiji Islands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Fijian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Note  Type locality: South Seas [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:191318
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-12-18 15:00:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-02-13 15:01:31Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2012-04-18 22:07:20Z  changed  Boury-Esnault, Nicole
  
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  Citation: Boury-Esnault, N.; van Soest, R. (2013). Geodia imperfecta Bowerbank, 1874. 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=191318 on 2013-05-20
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