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Tuba megastoma Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 
AphiaID: 194594

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Haplosclerina (Suborder) > Callyspongiidae (Family) > Tuba (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Callyspongia (Cladochalina) vaginalis (Lamarck, 1814)
Rank Species
Parent Tuba Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 accepted as Callyspongia (Cladochalina) Schmidt, 1870
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]

basis of record: 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 British Virgin Islands [details]
Link To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
Note  Type locality: Virgin Islands [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:194594
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-12-17 16:11:53Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-10-29 15:48:44Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Tuba megastoma 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=194594 on 2013-05-18
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