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Dercitus (Halinastra) luteus (Pulitzer-Finali, 1986) 
AphiaID: 555685

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Ancorinidae (Family) > Dercitus (Genus) > Dercitus (Halinastra) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Dercitus (Halinastra) de Laubenfels, 1936
Synonymised
taxa		  Pachataxa lutea Pulitzer-Finali, 1986 (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Pulitzer-Finali, G. 1986. A collection of West Indian Demospongiae (Porifera). In appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the West Indies. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria 86: 65-216. [details]

basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Beglinger, E.J.; De Voogd, N.J. 2010. Skeletons in confusion: a review of astrophorid sponges with (dicho-)calthrops as structural megascleres (Porifera, Demospongiae, Astrophorida). Zookeys 68: 1-88. [details] [full text]

from synonym: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A. (2002). Family Calthropellidae Lendenfeld, 1906, in: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. pp. 127-133 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Brazil (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Fernando de Naronha and Atoll das Rocas [details]
Greater Antilles [details]
Jamaica (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Southern Caribbean [details]
Venezuela (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Specimen  Holotype (from synonym): MSNG 47861, locality Greater Antilles (Puerto Rico, La Parguera) [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
Image 
Dercitus (Halinastra) luteus
[image from synonym]
Dercitus (Halinastra) luteus
added on 2007-06-27 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2010-12-14 16:25:41
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:555685
Taxonomic
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Dercitus (Halinastra) luteus (Pulitzer-Finali, 1986). 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=555685 on 2013-05-24
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