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Microciona tuberosa Bowerbank, 1875 
AphiaID: 192471

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Microcionina (Suborder) > Microcionidae (Family) > Microcioninae (Subfamily) > Microciona (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (genus transfer)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Clathria (Wilsonella) tuberosa (Bowerbank, 1875)
Rank Species
Parent Microciona Bowerbank, 1862 accepted as Clathria (Microciona) Bowerbank, 1862
Sources  original description: Bowerbank, J.S. 1875b. Contributions to a General History of the Spongiadae. Part VII. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1875: 281-296. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Hooper, J.N.A. 1996a. Revision of Microcionidae (Porifera: Poecilosclerida: Demospongiae), with description of Australian species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 40: 1-626. [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Malacca Strait [details]
Malaysian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Note  Type locality: Straits of Malacca [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:192471
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-12-18 15:00:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-11-07 16:16:14Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Microciona tuberosa Bowerbank, 1875. 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=192471 on 2013-05-26
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