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Halichoclona gellindra de Laubenfels, 1932 
AphiaID: 345573

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Haplosclerina (Suborder) > Chalinidae (Family) > Halichoclona (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (genus transfer)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Haliclona (Halichoclona) gellindra (de Laubenfels, 1932)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Halichoclona de Laubenfels, 1932
 Haliclona (Halichoclona) de Laubenfels, 1932
Parent Halichoclona de Laubenfels, 1932 accepted as Haliclona (Halichoclona) de Laubenfels, 1932
Source  original description: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1932b. The marine and fresh-water sponges of California. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 81(2927):1-140. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution California [details]
Specimen  Holotype: USNM 22063, locality California (Carmel, Monterey Peninsula) [details]
Link To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
Note  De Laubenfels, 1930: 28 erected Gellius (?) epocheomaius with the remark 'Has no sigmas but in other respects is very like the genus Gellius'. Later (De Laubenfels, 1932: 114), after designating and describing a holotype for Halichoclona gellindra, he said that another somewhat similar specimen, which he previously (1930) called Gellius epocheoamaius, was so poor that it 'was not worth treating as a separate species because of its similarity to gellindra'. This ambiguous statement can be interpreted in at least two ways: (1) Gellius epocheomaius is the same species as Halichoclona gellindra, or (2) Gellius epocheomaius is close to but different from Halichoclona gellindra. In the first case, Halichoclona gellindra would be a junior synonym of Halichoclona epocheomaius and the description of H. gellindra would then extend to H. epocheomaius. In the second case, Gellius epocheomaius is a nomen nudum or species inquirenda, while H. gellindra stays an accepted name. Until this has been studied properly, we choose here the latter solution.  [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:345573
Taxonomic
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2008-05-31 18:20:01Z  created  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Halichoclona gellindra de Laubenfels, 1932. 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=345573 on 2013-06-19
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