WoRMS taxon details
Clathria frondifera (Bowerbank, 1875)
AphiaID: 194701
AphiaID: 194701
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Microcionina (Suborder) > Microcionidae (Family) > Microcioninae (Subfamily) > Clathria (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (junior synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Clathria (Thalysias) vulpina (Lamarck, 1814) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Clathria Schmidt, 1862 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Bowerbank, J.S. 1875b. Contributions to a General History of the Spongiadae. Part VII. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1875: 281-296. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Thomas, P.A. 1981. A second collection of marine Demospongiae from Mahe Island in the Seychelles Bank (Indian Ocean). Annalen. Reeks in 8 - Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: zoologische wetenschappen, 233. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: Tervuren, Belgium. 54 plates pp. [details] [full text] additional source: Thomas, P.A. 1979. Studies on sponges of the Mozambique channel. I. Sponges of the Inhaca Island. II. Sponges of Mambone and Paradise Islands. Annales du Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale, Sciences zoologiques 227: 1-73, pls I-III. [details] [full text] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Clathria frondifera var. dichela Hentschel, 1912 accepted as Clathria (Thalysias) vulpina (Lamarck, 1814) Variety Clathria frondifera var. major Hentschel, 1912 accepted as Clathria (Thalysias) major Hentschel, 1912 Variety Clathria frondifera var. setotubulosa Wilson, 1925 accepted as Clathria (Thalysias) vulpina (Lamarck, 1814) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Inhaca Island [details] Mahe Island [details] Malacca Strait [details] Malaysian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Malindi [details] Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Mozambique [details] Quirimba Archipelago [details] Red Sea [details] Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Southern Red Sea [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Link | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Multiple stubby fan-like branches, 3-4 cm wide, 5-10 cm long, loosely attached to substrate. Surface tuberculate, punctured with deep holes and irregular furrows. Body tough, flexible, gritty; colour rich dark brown orange. Habitat: shallow fringing reefs, lagoons. Distribution: SE Asia. Similar to Axinella carteri (Richmond, 1997). [details] Specimen: Reg. No.1544, 1569,and 1573 [details] Specimen: M.R.A.C. no 1441 [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:194701 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Clathria frondifera (Bowerbank, 1875). 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=194701 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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