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Leptochelastra de Laubenfels, 1936 
AphiaID: 196559

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Microcionina (Suborder) > Raspailiidae (Family) > Raspailiinae (Subfamily)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (junior synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Eurypon Gray, 1867
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Hymeraphia toureti Topsent, 1894 (type by original designation)
Parent Raspailiinae Nardo, 1833
Sources  original description: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1936a. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Carnegie Institute of Washington (Tortugas Laboratory Paper N° 467) 30: 1-225, pls 1-22. [details]

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]

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Species Leptochelastra toureti (Topsent, 1894) accepted as Eurypon toureti (Topsent, 1894)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Note  Erected for type species Hymeraphia toureti Topsent, 1894, which is a Eurypon. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196559
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-01-23 08:56:03Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2006-11-20 07:26:41Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Leptochelastra de Laubenfels, 1936. 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=196559 on 2013-05-25
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