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Desmacella vestibularis sensu Dendy, 1924 
AphiaID: 531113

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Mycalina (Suborder) > Desmacellidae (Family) > Desmacella (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (misidentified)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Desmacella dendyi de Laubenfels, 1936
Rank Species
Parent Desmacella Schmidt, 1870
Sources  original description: Dendy, A. 1924. Porifera. Part I. Non-Antarctic sponges. Natural History Report. British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 1910 (Zoology)6(3): 269-392, pls I-XV. [details] [full text]

status source: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1936a. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Carnegie Institute of Washington (Tortugas Laboratory Paper N° 467) 30: 1-225, pls 1-22. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Note  Dendy assigned this to Desmacella vestibularis (Wilson, 1904) from the Galapagos, but differences are judged too large for conspecifity. See also Bergquist & Fromont, 1988.  [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:531113
Taxonomic
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2010-10-11 08:48:31Z  created  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Desmacella vestibularis sensu Dendy, 1924. 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=531113 on 2013-05-18
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