WoRMS taxon details
Smenospongia echina (de Laubenfels, 1934)
AphiaID: 574343
AphiaID: 574343
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Thorectidae (Family) > Thorectinae (Subfamily) > Smenospongia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Smenospongia Wiedenmayer, 1977 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Polyfibrospongia echina de Laubenfels, 1934 (genus transfer) | |||||||
| Sources |
original description: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1934. New sponges from the Puerto Rican deep. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 91(17): 1-28. [details] [full text]
from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1978. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part I. Keratosa. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 94. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 56 (179): 1–94. [details] [view taxon] [full text] | |||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||
| Distribution | Floridian [details] Greater Antilles [details] Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
| Specimens |
Nontype (from synonym): USNM 22482, locality Florida (near Bush Key Reef, Tortugas, Florida) [view taxon]
Holotype (from synonym): USNM 22315, locality Puerto Rico [view taxon] | |||||||
| Link | To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection | |||||||
| Note |
Van Soest (1978) suggested this to be a junior synonym of Smenospongia aurea, but pending a necessary revision of Smenospongia we prefer this to remain accepted as a separate species. [details] | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:574343 | |||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | ||||||||
| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Smenospongia echina (de Laubenfels, 1934). 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=574343 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||
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