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Alcyonium ficus sensu Pallas, 1766 
AphiaID: 291632

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Tethyidae (Family) > Alcyonium (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (genus transfer)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Suberites ficus (Johnston, 1842)
Rank Species
Parent Alcyonium sensu Pallas, 1766 accepted as Tethya Lamarck, 1815
Sources  original description: Pallas, P.S. (1766) Elenchus zoophytorum. Van Cleef, Hagae-Comitum, pp. 1-451, available online at http://www.gdz-cms.de/no_cache/en/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=222048 [details] [full text]

additional source: Olivi,G. 1792. (Alcyonium and Spongia) pp. 235-254 and 262-273 extracted from the book 'Zoologia Adriatica'. Bassano. [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Adriatic Sea [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Note  Pallas' description and indication of occurrence of Spongia ficus is unclear, so Johnston's description is taken as the type description.  [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:291632
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
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2008-01-20 14:16:41Z  created  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Alcyonium ficus sensu Pallas, 1766. 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=291632 on 2013-05-26
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