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Polymastia mammilaris (Müller, 1806) 
AphiaID: 221468

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Polymastiidae (Family) > Polymastia (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (misspelling)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Polymastia mamillaris (Müller, 1806)
Rank Species
Parent Polymastia Bowerbank, 1864
Sources  basis of record: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details]

additional source: Pansini, M. 1987a. Littoral demosponges from the banks of the Strait of Sicily and the Alboran Sea. Pp. 149-185. In: Vacelet, J. & Boury-Esnault, N. (Eds), Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. NATO ASI Series G 13. (Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg): 1-332. (look up in IMIS[details]

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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English teat sponge  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Alboran Island (probably not valid[details]
South Africa (country) (not valid[details]
Wimereux (probably not valid[details]
Notes  The misspelling 'mammilaris' is widespread in the literature (for 'mamillaris). Please note that the Wimereux record must be referred to P. penicillus. The South African record may be P. littoralis, but this needs checking. [details]

Habitat: detritic bottom [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:221468
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2003-12-30 17:57:43Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-08-25 18:45:32Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Polymastia mammilaris (Müller, 1806). 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=221468 on 2013-05-20
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