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Ficulina ficus (Johnston, 1842) 
AphiaID: 196496

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Suberitidae (Family) > Ficulina (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (genus transfer)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Suberites ficus (Johnston, 1842)
Rank Species
Parent Ficulina Gray, 1867 accepted as Suberites Nardo, 1833
Sources  original description: Johnston, G. 1842. A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes.(W.H. Lizars: Edinburgh): i-xii, 1-264, pls I-XXV. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Suberitidae. In: Hooper, J.N.A & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera, a guide to the classification of the sponges (in 2 volumes). Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York: 1-1708, i-xlviii. [details]

additional source: Lévi, C. 1952. Spongiaires de la côte du Sénégal. Bulletin de l’Institut français d’Afrique noire (A. Sciences naturelles) 14(1): 34-59. [details] [full text]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Azores [details]
French Exclusive Economic Zone [Mediterranean part] [details]
Monaco [details]
North Atlantic [details]
North Coast of Spain [details]
Senegalese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Coast of France [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
Note  This is probably not Alcyonium ficus Pallas, 1766, nor Linnaeus, 1767. The earliest recognizable sponge with the name ficus is Halichondria ficus Johnston, 1842. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196496
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-01-17 18:41:33Z  created  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Ficulina ficus (Johnston, 1842). 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=196496 on 2013-05-24
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