WoRMS taxon details
Microciona kentii Bowerbank, 1874
AphiaID: 192449
AphiaID: 192449
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Microcionina (Suborder) > Microcionidae (Family) > Microcioninae (Subfamily) > Microciona (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym) | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Accepted name | Phorbas plumosus (Montagu, 1818) | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Microciona Bowerbank, 1862 accepted as Clathria (Microciona) Bowerbank, 1862 | ||||||||||
| Source |
original description: Bowerbank, J.S. 1874b. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae.Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII. (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||
| Specimen | Holotype: BMNH 1910.1.1.77, locality United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (Guernsey, dredged) [details] | ||||||||||
| Link | To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection | ||||||||||
| Note |
Hooper (1996) assigned this to Clathria (Microciona), but Bowerbank's figures clearly show it to be assignable to Phorbas plumosus. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:192449 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Microciona kentii 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=192449 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||
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