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Spongia muricata Pallas, 1766 
AphiaID: 193851

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Spongiidae (Family) > Spongia (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (genus transfer)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Trikentrion muricatum (Pallas, 1766)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Trikentrion Ehlers, 1870
Parent Spongia Linnaeus, 1759
Sources  original description: Pallas, P.S. (1766) Elenchus zoophytorum. Van Cleef, Hagae-Comitum, pp. 1-451, available online at http://www.gdz-cms.de/no_cache/en/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=222048 [details] [full text]

basis of record: Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Raspailiidae Hentschel, 1923. Pp. 469-510. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details]

additional source: Ehlers, E. 1870. Die Esper’schen Spongien in der zoologischen Sammlung der K. Universität Erlangen. (E.Th. Jacob: Erlangen): 1-36. [details] [full text]

additional source: Esper, E.C.J. 1794. Die Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet, nebst Beschreibungen. Zweyter Theil. (Raspe: Nürnberg):1-303. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Gulf of Guinea [details]
Notes  This is a junior homonym of Spongia muricata Linnaeus, 1759 (which is incertae sedis). [details]

Holotype: ZMB 7160 [details]

Type locality: Guinea [details]
Images 
Spongia muricata, Esper's plate III
Spongia muricata, Esper's plate III
added on 2010-11-10 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2010-11-10 16:08:49

Pallas' description of Spongia muricata.
Pallas' description of Spongia muricata.
added on 2010-11-10 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2010-11-10 16:12:05
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:193851
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-12-18 15:00:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-01-14 19:33:26Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongia muricata Pallas, 1766. 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=193851 on 2013-06-19
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