WoRMS taxon details
Ophlitaspongia meyeri Bowerbank, 1877
AphiaID: 192743
AphiaID: 192743
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Microcionina (Suborder) > Microcionidae (Family) > Ophlitaspongiinae (Subfamily) > Ophlitaspongia (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (genus transfer) | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Accepted name | Clathria (Clathria) meyeri (Bowerbank, 1877) | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Ophlitaspongia Bowerbank, 1866 | ||||||||||
| Source |
original description: Bowerbank, J.S. 1877. Descriptions of five new species of sponges discovered by A.B. Meyer on the Philippine Islands and New Guinea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 456-464. [details] [full text]
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Papua [details] | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Holotype: Dresden Museum [details] Type locality: Indonesian New Guinea [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:192743 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Ophlitaspongia meyeri Bowerbank, 1877. 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=192743 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||
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