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Hircinia ramosa Keller, 1889 
AphiaID: 191621

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Irciniidae (Family) > Hircinia (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (genus transfer)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Ircinia ramosa (Keller, 1889)
Rank Species
Parent Hircinia Nardo, 1834 accepted as Ircinia Nardo, 1833
Sources  original description: Keller, C. 1889. Die Spongienfauna des rothen Meeres (I. Hälfte). Z. wiss. Zool. 48: 311-405, pls XX-XXV (look up in IMIS) [details] [full text]

misapplication: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1950a. The Porifera of the Bermuda Archipelago. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 27(1):1-154, pls I-II. [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Eritrea [details]
Notes  Records of this combination in the Atlantic Ocean are misapplied. There are several ramose Atlantic Ircinia species or species that have ramose growth forms.  [details]

Holotype: ZMB [details]

Type locality: Eritrea [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:191621
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-12-18 15:00:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-04-23 18:11:30Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Hircinia ramosa Keller, 1889. 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=191621 on 2013-05-19
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