WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Asteropus arenosus van Soest & Beglinger, 2008

Asteropus arenosus van Soest & Beglinger, 2008
AphiaID: 380202

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Ancorinidae (Family) > Asteropus (Genus)

Status

accepted

Record
status

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Rank

Species

Parent

Asteropus Sollas, 1888

Source

original description: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Beglinger, E.J. 2008. Tetractinellid and hadromerid sponges from the Sultanate of Oman. Zoölogische Mededelingen Leiden 82 (53): 749-790. [details] [full text]

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Distribution

Oman [details]
Western Arabian Sea [details]

Specimen

Holotype: ZMA Por. 17475, locality Oman (Dhofar, Mirbat, Hino) [details]

Link

To Encyclopedia of Life

Images

Asteropus arenosus
added on 2009-01-09 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2009-01-09 11:39:25

Asteropus arenosus
added on 2009-01-09 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2009-01-09 11:40:10

LSID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:380202

Taxonomic
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2009-01-09 08:33:43Z	created	van Soest, Rob

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Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Asteropus arenosus van Soest & Beglinger, 2008. 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=380202 on 2013-05-25

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