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Neopetrosia proxima (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) 
AphiaID: 378581

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Petrosina (Suborder) > Petrosiidae (Family) > Neopetrosia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Neopetrosia de Laubenfels, 1949
Synonymised
taxa
  Densa araminta de Laubenfels, 1934 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Thalysias proxima Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer)
Xestospongia proxima (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (Genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Duchassaing De Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV. [details] [full text]

new combination reference: Campos, M.; Mothes, B.; Eckert, M.; van Soest, R.W.M. 2005. Haplosclerida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the coast of Maranhão State, Brazil, Southwestern Atlantic. Zootaxa 963: 1–22. [details]

from synonym: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stentoft, N. 1988. Barbados Deep-Water Sponges. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 122. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao andother Caribbean Islands, 70(215): 1-175. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Zea, S. 1987. Esponjas del Caribe Colombiano. (Catálogo Cientifico:Bogotá, Colombia): 1-286. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1934. New sponges from the Puerto Rican deep. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 91(17): 1-28. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

Environment marine
Distribution Barbados Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Belizean Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Colombian part of the Caribbean Sea [details]
Costa Rica [details]
Eastern Caribbean [details]
Greater Antilles [details]
Hispaniola [details]
Panamanian part of the Caribbean Sea [details]
Southeastern Brazil [details]
Southern Caribbean [details]
United States part of the Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Venezuelan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Virgin Islands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Western Caribbean [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To The Sponge Guide
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:378581
Taxonomic
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2008-12-23 13:31:55Z  created  de Voogd, Nicole
  
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  Citation: de Voogd, N. (2013). Neopetrosia proxima (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864). 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=378581 on 2013-05-22
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