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Petromica (Petromica) plumosa Kirkpatrick, 1903 
AphiaID: 387360

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > 'Lithistida' (Order) > Desmanthidae (Family) > Petromica (Genus) > Petromica (Petromica) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Petromica (Petromica) Topsent, 1898
Synonymised
taxa
  Monanthus plumosus Kirkpatrick, 1903 (genus transfer)
Petromica plumosa (Kirkpatrick, 1903) (subgenus assignment)
Sources  original description: Kirkpatrick, R. 1903a. Descriptions of South African Sponges. Part II.Marine Investigations in South Africa 2(14): 171-180, pl. IV. [details] [full text]

basis of record: List-Armitage, S.E.; Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Discovery of Petromica Topsent in the Pacific Ocean: a revision of the genus with a new subgenus (Chaladesma subgen. nov.) and a new species (P. (C.) pacifica sp. nov.), (Porifera: Demospongiae: Halichondrida: Halichondriidae). Invertebrate Systematics 16 (5): 813-835. [details]

from synonym: Pisera, A.; Lévi, C. 2002. Family Desmanthidae Topsent, 1893. Pp. 356-362. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Samaai, T. 2006. Biodiversity "hotspots", patterns of richness and endemism, and distribution of marine sponges in South Africa based on actual and interpolation data: A comparative approach. Zootaxa 1358: 1-37. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution East London (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Natal (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
South Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Specimen  Holotype (from synonym): BMNH 1902.11.16.28, locality South Africa (Natal coast, Cone Point) [view taxon]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:387360
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2009-03-30 10:28:24Z  created  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Petromica (Petromica) plumosa Kirkpatrick, 1903. 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=387360 on 2013-05-20
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