WoRMS taxon details
Meyenia robusta Potts, 1888
AphiaID: 192424
AphiaID: 192424
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Spongillina (Suborder) > Spongillidae (Family) > Meyenia (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (genus transfer) | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Accepted name | Ephydatia robusta (Potts, 1888) | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Meyenia Carter, 1881 accepted as Ephydatia Lamouroux, 1816 | ||||||||||
| Source |
original description: Potts, E. 1888 [1887]. Contributions towards a synopsis of the American forms of fresh-water Sponges with descriptions of those named by other authors and from all parts of the world. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 39 (1887): 158-279, pls V-XII. [details] [full text]
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| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | United States [details] | ||||||||||
| Link | To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection | ||||||||||
| Note |
Type locality: N-America [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:192424 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Meyenia robusta Potts, 1888. 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=192424 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||
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