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Cladochalina diffusa Ridley, 1884 
AphiaID: 234053

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Haplosclerina (Suborder) > Callyspongiidae (Family) > Cladochalina (Genus)
Status alternate representation (subgenus assignment)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Callyspongia (Cladochalina) diffusa (Ridley, 1884)
Rank Species
Parent Cladochalina Schmidt, 1870 accepted as Callyspongia (Cladochalina) Schmidt, 1870
Sources  original description: Ridley, S.O. 1884b. Notes on Sponges, with Description of a new Species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 14(81): 183-187. [details] [full text]

additional source: Ridley, S.O. 1884a. Spongiida. Pp. 366-482, pls 39-43; 582-630, pls 53-54. In: Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert’, 1881-2. (British Museum (Natural History): London). [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Central and Southern Great Barrier Reef [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234053
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-09-16 12:15:27Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2007-09-20 20:14:02Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Cladochalina diffusa Ridley, 1884. 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=234053 on 2013-05-22
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