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Spongia obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 
AphiaID: 193805

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Spongiidae (Family) > Spongia (Genus)
Status alternate representation (subgenus assignment)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Spongia (Spongia) obliqua 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: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1936a. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Carnegie Institute of Washington (Tortugas Laboratory Paper N° 467) 30: 1-225, pls 1-22. [details]

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]

additional source: Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

redescription: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1978. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part I. Keratosa. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 94. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 56 (179): 1–94. [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Caribbean Sea [details]
Cuban Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Floridian [details]
Mexican part of the Caribbean Sea [details]
Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Specimens  Lectotype: ZMA Por. 02099, locality Eastern Caribbean (Virgin Islands, Saint Thomas) [details]
Paralectotype: MSNT Por. 107, locality Eastern Caribbean (Virgin Islands, Saint Thomas) [details]
Link To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
Images 
Spongia obliqua lectotype specimen
Spongia obliqua lectotype specimen
added on 2013-02-19 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2013-02-19 16:42:31

Spongia obliqua paralectotype specimen
Spongia obliqua paralectotype specimen
added on 2013-02-19 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2013-02-19 16:45:04
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:193805
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-12-18 15:00:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-05-19 10:23:56Z  checked  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongia obliqua 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=193805 on 2013-06-20
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