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Myxilla mollis Ridley & Dendy, 1886 
AphiaID: 192652

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Myxillina (Suborder) > Myxillidae (Family) > Myxilla (Genus)
Status alternate representation (subgenus assignment)
Record
status
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Accepted name  Myxilla (Myxilla) mollis Ridley & Dendy, 1886
Rank Species
Parent Myxilla Schmidt, 1862
Sources  original description: Ridley, S.O.; Dendy, A. 1886. Preliminary Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. ‘Challenger’. Annals and Magazine of Natural History(5) 18: 325-351, 470-493. [details] [full text]

original description: Ridley, S.O.; Dendy, A. 1887. Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. ‘Challenger’ during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Challenger’, 1873-1876.Zoology 20(59): i-lxviii, 1-275, pls I-LI, 1 map. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Van Soest, R.W.M. 1996. A review of Iophonidae, Myxillidae and Tedaniidae occurring in the South East Pacific (Porifera: Poecilosclerida). Revue suisse de Zoologie 103(1): 3-79. [details]

additional source: Koltun, V.M. 1964b. Sponges of the Antarctic. 1 Tetraxonida and Cornacuspongida. Pp. 6-133, 443-448. In: Pavlovskii, E.P., Andriyashev,A.P. & Ushakov, P.V. (Eds), Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958), Akademya Nauk SSSR [English translation,1966, Israel Program for Scientific Translation] [details]

additional source: Burton, M. 1940. Las Esponjas marinas del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales. (Parte 1). Anales del Museo argentino de ciencias naturales ‘Bernardino Rivadavia’ 40 (6): 95-121, pls I-VIII. [details] [full text]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Argentinean Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Chilean Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
East Antarctic Wilkes Land [details]
Link To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
Notes  Holotype: BMNH 1887.5.2.112 [details]

Type locality: off SW Patagonia, 52°45'S 73°46'W, Chile, 448 m. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:192652
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2005-12-18 15:00:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-06-01 18:04:47Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Myxilla mollis Ridley & Dendy, 1886. 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=192652 on 2013-05-23
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