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Myxilla simplex (Baer, 1906) 
AphiaID: 234273

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Myxillina (Suborder) > Myxillidae (Family) > Myxilla (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (Genus transfer)
Record
status
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Accepted name  Lissodendoryx (Lissodendoryx) simplex (Baer, 1906)
Rank Species
Parent Myxilla Schmidt, 1862
Sources  original description: Baer, L. 1906. Silicispongien von Sansibar, Kapstadt and Papeete. (Inaugural Dissertation: Berlin). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 72 (1,1): 1-32, pls I-V. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Samaai, T.; Gibbons, M.J. 2005. Demospongiae taxonomy and biodiversity of the Benguela region on the west coast of South Africa. African Natural History, 1: 1-96 [details]

additional source: Burton, M. 1956. The sponges of West Africa. Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen) 4: 111-147. [details]

additional source: Lévi, C. 1963. Spongiaires d’Afrique du Sud. (1) Poecilosclérides.Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 37(1): 1-72, pls I-X. [details]

additional source: Stephens, J. 1915b. Atlantic Sponges collected by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 50(2): 423-467, pls XXXVIII-XL. [details] [full text]

additional source: Uriz, M.J. 1987. Sponges from the South-West of Africa: description of species. Pp. 54-73. In: Jones,W.C. (Ed.), European Contributions to the Taxonomy of Sponges. (Sherkin Island Marine Station: Sherkin Island, County Cork): 1-140. [details] [full text]

additional source: Uriz, M.J. 1988. Deep-water sponges from the continental shelf and slope off Namibia (Southwest Africa): Classses Hexactinellida and Demospongia. Monografías de Zoología Marina 3: 9-157. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Cape Town [details]
Namibia [details]
Namibian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
South African Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
South African part of the South Atlantic Ocean [details]
West Africa (not valid[details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234273
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2006-11-08 08:06:59Z  created  Samaai, Toufiek
2007-02-20 18:57:48Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Myxilla simplex (Baer, 1906). 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=234273 on 2013-06-20
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