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Spongia fenestrata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 
AphiaID: 193760

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Spongiidae (Family) > Spongia (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Smenospongia musicalis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Rank Species
Parent Spongia Linnaeus, 1759
Sources  original description: Duchassaing De Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV. [details] [full text]

additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. 1983b. Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam 9(21): 189-205. [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Virgin Islands part of the Caribbean Sea [details]
Specimen  Lectotype: MSNT Port. 102, locality Eastern Caribbean (Virgin Islands, Saint Thomas) [details]
Link To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
Notes  Wiedenmayer (1977) followed by Van Soest (1978) assigned this to Smenospongia aurea (Hyatt). [details]

This combination is a junior homonym of Spongia fenestrata Lamarck, 1814. [details]
Image 
Spongia fenestrata Duch. & Mich lectotype specimen
Spongia fenestrata Duch. & Mich lectotype specimen
added on 2013-02-19 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2013-02-19 15:04:13
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:193760
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-12-18 15:00:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-07-11 14:38:04Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2009-04-17 07:57:56Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongia fenestrata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864. 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/authority/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=193760 on 2013-05-19
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