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Hircinia (Polyfibrospongia) Bowerbank, 1877 
AphiaID: 345175

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Irciniidae (Family) > Hircinia (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (junior synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Carteriospongia Hyatt, 1877
Rank Subgenus
Typetaxon Polyfibrospongia flabellifera Bowerbank, 1877 (type by subsequent designation)
Parent Hircinia Nardo, 1834 accepted as Ircinia Nardo, 1833
Sources  original description: Bowerbank, J.S. 1877. Descriptions of five new species of sponges discovered by A.B. Meyer on the Philippine Islands and New Guinea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 456-464. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Lendenfeld, R. Von 1889a. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges.(Trübner and Co.: London): iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50. [details]

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Species Hircinia (Polyfibrospongia) flabellifera (Bowerbank, 1877) accepted as Carteriospongia foliascens (Pallas, 1766)
Species Hircinia (Polyfibrospongia) gigantea Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Ircinia irregularis (Poléjaeff, 1884)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:345175
Taxonomic
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2008-05-06 08:34:11Z  created  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Hircinia (Polyfibrospongia) Bowerbank, 1877. 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=345175 on 2013-05-20
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