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Amphimedon queenslandica Hooper & van Soest, 2006 
AphiaID: 234042

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Haplosclerina (Suborder) > Niphatidae (Family) > Amphimedon (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Amphimedon Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Source  original description: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. 2006. A new species of Amphimedon (Porifera, Demospongiae, Haplosclerida, Niphatidae) from the Capricorn-Bunker Group of Islands, Great Barrier Reef, Australia: target species for the ‘sponge genome project’. Zootaxa 1314: 31–39. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Central and Southern Great Barrier Reef [details]
Great Barrier Reef [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (118490 nucleotides; 9914 proteins)
Note  Holotype: Holotype QMG315611 (fragments of holotype: ZMA Por. 19383). Shark Bay, Heron
Island, Capricorn-Bunker Group, southern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia, 23°
27’S, 151° 55’E, intertidal 0.5m depth, coll. Nelson Lauzon & Sally Leys, 10 April 1999,
by hand, under coral rubble on reef flat.
Paratypes: QMG322874, QMG322875, QMG322876, ZMAPOR 19384 (fragment
QMG322872), ZMAPOR 19385 (fragment QMG322873): Shark Bay, eastern end of sand
cay, 50–100m from the shore, Heron Island, Capricorn-Bunker Group, southern Great
Barrier Reef, 23° 27’S, 151° 55’E, intertidal < 2 m depth, coll. Simon Walker, 8 June
2006, by hand, coral rubble substrate.
Specimens: QMG324489, QMG324490: northern crest, near entrance, One Tree
Island, Capricorn-Bunker Group, southern Great Barrier Reef, 23° 29'05"S, 152° 04'24"E,
intertidal < 50 cm depth, coll. Simon Walker, 6 June 2006, by hand, coral rubble substrate.
QMG324491: eastern crest, near “two tree island”, One Tree Island, Capricorn-Bunker Group, southern Great Barrier Reef, 23° 29' 14''S 152° 05' 18'' E, coll. Simon Walker, 6 June 2006, by hand, coral rubble substrate. [details]
Images 
Amphimedon queenslandica
Amphimedon queenslandica
added on 2011-10-22 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2011-10-22 13:45:42

Amphimedon queenslandica 2
Amphimedon queenslandica 2
added on 2011-10-22 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2011-10-22 13:47:42
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234042
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-09-15 12:36:17Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2006-10-19 14:22:39Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Amphimedon queenslandica Hooper & van Soest, 2006. 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=234042 on 2013-05-20
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