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Cinachyrella voeltzkowii (Lendenfeld, 1897) 
AphiaID: 220440

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Spirophorida (Order) > Tetillidae (Family) > Cinachyrella (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (junior synonym (and spelling variation))
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Cinachyrella arabica (Carter, 1869)
Rank Species
Parent Cinachyrella Wilson, 1925
Source  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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English tennis-ball sponge  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Chumbe Island [details]
Tanzania [details]
Notes  Original spelling 'voeltzkowii' must be corrected to 'voeltzkowi' according to the ICZN. [details]

Description: Spherical, 2-5 cm diameter. Surface is hairy, silty, and with sunken pits; stiff velvet to touch. Interior orange brown. Habitat: eulittoral rubbly flats. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220440
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1998-09-22 10:53:32Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
1998-09-23 05:35:14Z  changed  Onyango, Eunice
2009-01-09 08:33:43Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Cinachyrella voeltzkowii (Lendenfeld, 1897). 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=220440 on 2013-05-23
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