WoRMS taxon details
Kallypilidion fascigera (Hentschel, 1912)
AphiaID: 221084
AphiaID: 221084
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Haplosclerina (Suborder) > Chalinidae (Family) > Kallypilidion (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (genus transfer) | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Haliclona (Reniera) fascigera (Hentschel, 1912) | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Kallypilidion de Laubenfels, 1954 accepted as Haliclona (Reniera) Schmidt, 1862 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Hentschel, E. 1912. Kiesel- und Hornschwämme der Aru- und Kei-Inseln. Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft 34(3): 293-448, pls 13-21. [details] [full text]
additional source: Barnes D.K.A.; Bell, J.J. (2002) Coastal sponge communities of the West Indian Ocean: taxonomic affinities, richness and diversity. Afr. J. Ecol. 40: 337-349 [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Chumbe Island [details] Indonesia [details] Malindi [details] Quirimba Archipelago [details] Zanzibar [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Single or multiple clumps of tubes up to 50 cm high and 4-5 cm wide. Walls 3-4 mm thick, sometimes ribbed, occasionally with fine tapering tendrils. Surface extremely smooth; fine thread-like longitudinal spicule tracts visible in walls. Body flexible, smooth and soft; tubes collapse out of water. Colour clear sky-blue, occasionally pale lilac. Habitat: fringing and patch reefs. Distribution: Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1997). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:221084 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Kallypilidion fascigera (Hentschel, 1912). 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=221084 on 2013-06-18 | |||||||||||||||||
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