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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongia (Spongia) sweeti (Kirkpatrick, 1900) 
AphiaID: 467547

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPorifera (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDemospongiae (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDictyoceratida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongiidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongia (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongia (Spongia) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongia (Spongia) Linnaeus, 1759
Synonymised
taxa		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCarteriospongia sweeti (Kirkpatrick, 1900) (genus transfer)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPolyfibrospongia sweeti Kirkpatrick, 1900 (genus transfer)
Sources  original description Kirkpatrick, R. 1900b. Description of Sponges from Funafuti. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 6 (34): 345-362, pls XIII-XV. [details]

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Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution 
From editor or global species database
South Pacific Ocean
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTuvaluan Exclusive Economic Zone [from synonym] [view taxon]
(no group)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorClipperton [details]
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGilbert/Ellis Islands [details]
From other sources
South Pacific Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTuvaluan Exclusive Economic Zone [from synonym] [view taxon]
Link Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:467547
Taxonomic
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2010-04-05 14:14:43Z  created  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongia (Spongia) sweeti (Kirkpatrick, 1900). 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=467547 on 2013-12-11
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