Polymastia Bowerbank, 1864 
AphiaID: 132046

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Porifera > Demospongiae > Hadromerida > Polymastiidae

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Genus
Parent		Polymastiidae Gray, 1867
Sources		original description: Bowerbank, J.S. 1864a. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae.Volume 1. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-290, pls I-XXXVII. (look up in IMIS) [details] [full text] basis of record: Boury-Esnault, N. 2002. Family Polymastiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 201-219. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details] additional source: Kelly, M. (2009). Demospongiae, Calcarea (Porifera). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103 (look up in IMIS) [details]
All child taxa [hide all]		Species Polymastia penicillus (Montagu, 1818)
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Links		To GenBank To ITIS
Images		Polymastia sp. added on 2006-08-10 - author: IMARES () qualitystatus: not checked Polymastia sp. (probably P. penicillus) added on 2006-08-10 - author: IMARES () qualitystatus: not checked
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132046
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van Soest, Rob 2007-09-04 15:31:24Z   changed   van Soest, Rob 2010-06-28 08:42:34Z   changed   van Soest, Rob
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		Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Polymastia Bowerbank, 1864. 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: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=132046 on 2013-06-20
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