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Viles ophiraphidites de Laubenfels, 1934 
AphiaID: 194538

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Halichondrida (Order) > Halichondriidae (Family) > Viles (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (genus transfer)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Topsentia ophiraphidites (de Laubenfels, 1934)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Viles de Laubenfels, 1934
Parent Viles de Laubenfels, 1934 accepted as Topsentia Berg, 1899
Sources  original description: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1934. New sponges from the Puerto Rican deep. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 91(17): 1-28. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-816. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Link To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
Notes  Holotype: USNM 22334 [details]

Type locality: Puerto Rico [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:194538
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-12-18 15:00:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-08-18 17:45:06Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Viles ophiraphidites de Laubenfels, 1934. 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=194538 on 2013-05-21
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