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Aplysina cauliformis sensu Carter, 1882 
AphiaID: 234181

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Verongida (Order) > Aplysinidae (Family) > Aplysina (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (misidentification of genus)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Callyspongia (Cladochalina) tenerrima Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Rank Species
Parent Aplysina Nardo, 1834
Sources  original description: Carter, H.J. 1882a. Some Sponges from the West Indies and Acapulco in the Liverpool Free Museum described, with general and classificatory Remarks. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 9(52): 266-301,346-368, pls XI-XII. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Wiedenmayer, F. 1977b. Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. Experientia Supplementum 28: 1-287, pls 1-43. [details]

additional source: Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Bahamas [details]
Belize [details]
Bonaire [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Cayman Islands [details]
Colombia [details]
Costa Rica [details]
Cuba [details]
Hispaniola [details]
Jamaica [details]
Mexico [details]
Panama [details]
Venezuela [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To ITIS
Notes  Carter (1882) described Luffaria cauliformis on p. 268 and Aplysina cauliformis on p. 270. Wiedenmayer (1977) submits that the first is a valid Aplysina, while the second is a Callyspongia (tenerrima). [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234181
Taxonomic
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2006-10-12 05:46:44Z  created  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Aplysina cauliformis sensu Carter, 1882. 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=234181 on 2013-05-24
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