WoRMS taxon details
Petromica (Petromica) massalis Dendy, 1905
AphiaID: 387375
AphiaID: 387375
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > 'Lithistida' (Order) > Desmanthidae (Family) > Petromica (Genus) > Petromica (Petromica) (Subgenus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Petromica (Petromica) Topsent, 1898 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Petromica massalis Dendy, 1905 (subgenus assignment and rank elevation) | |||||||
| Sources |
original description: Dendy, A. 1905. Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman,at Ceylon, in 1902. Pp. 57-246, pls I-XVI. In: Herdman, W.A. (Ed.), Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. 3(Supplement 18). (Royal Society: London). [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: Burton, M. 1928a. Report on some Deep-Sea Sponges from the Indian Museum collected by R.I.M.S. ‘Investigator’. Part II. Tetraxonida (concluded) and Euceratosa. Records of the Indian Museum 30 (1): 109-138, pls I-II. [details] [view taxon] [full text] | |||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||
| Distribution | Andaman and Nicobar Islands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] South India and Sri Lanka [details] Sri Lankan Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
| Specimen | Holotype (from synonym): BMNH 1907.2.1.19, locality Sri Lanka (W coast Gulf of Manaar, Galle) [view taxon] | |||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:387375 | |||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Petromica (Petromica) massalis Dendy, 1905. 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=387375 on 2013-05-26 | ||||||||
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