WoRMS taxon details
Hircinia purpurea Whitfield, 1901
AphiaID: 191640
AphiaID: 191640
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Irciniidae (Family) > Hircinia (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Mycale (Arenochalina) laxissima (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Hircinia Nardo, 1834 accepted as Ircinia Nardo, 1833 | |||||||||||||
| Source |
original description: Whitfield, R.P. (1901). Notice of a new sponge from Bermuda and of some other forms from the Bahamas. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 14: 47-50; pls I-V (look up in IMIS) [details] [full text]
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Bahamas [details] | |||||||||||||
| Specimens |
Holotype: AMNH 106 [details]
Holotype: AMNH 106, locality Bahamian (Bahamas, New Providence Island, Nassau Harbor) [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:191640 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Hircinia purpurea Whitfield, 1901. 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=191640 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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