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Thoosa purpurea Cruz-Barraza, Carballo, Bautista-Guerrero & Nava, 2011 
AphiaID: 579402

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Thoosidae (Family) > Thoosa (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Thoosa Hancock, 1849
Source  original description: Cruz-Barraza, J.A.; Carballo, J. L.; Bautista-Guerrero, E.; Nava, H. 2011. New species of excavating sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae) on coral reefs from the Mexican Pacific Ocean. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 91 (5): 999–1013. , available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315410002079 [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution type locality: North East Pacific [details]
Revillagigedos [details]
Specimen  Holotype: MNCN 1.01/635, locality Revillagigedos (Mexican Pacific, Revillagigedo, Caleta de Bines, Isla Socorro ) [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:579402
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2011-08-30 16:45:09Z  created  Boury-Esnault, Nicole
  
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  Citation: Boury-Esnault, N. (2013). Thoosa purpurea Cruz-Barraza, Carballo, Bautista-Guerrero & Nava, 2011. 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=579402 on 2013-05-21
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