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Lissomyxilla spinosa (Bowerbank, 1874) 
AphiaID: 244688

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Halichondrida (Order) > Dictyonellidae (Family) > Lissomyxilla (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (genus transfer)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Tethyspira spinosa (Bowerbank, 1874)
Rank Species
Parent Lissomyxilla Hanitsch, 1894 accepted as Tethyspira Topsent, 1890
Sources  original description: Bowerbank, J.S. 1874b. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae.Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Erpenbeck, D.; Alvarez De Glasby, B. 2002. Family Dictyonellidae Van Soest, Diaz & Pomponi, 1990. Pp. 773-786. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details]

source of synonymy: Hanitsch, R. 1894a. Revision of the Generic Nomenclature and Classification in Bowerbank’s ‘British Spongiadae’. Proceedings and Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society 8: 173-195. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution United Kingdom [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:244688
Taxonomic
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2007-08-20 14:47:02Z  created  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Lissomyxilla spinosa (Bowerbank, 1874). 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=244688 on 2013-05-22
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