Grantia compressa (Fabricius, 1780) 
AphiaID: 132181

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Porifera > Calcarea > Calcaronea > Leucosolenida > Grantiidae > Grantia

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Grantia Fleming, 1828
Sources		original description: Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica: systematice sistens animalia Groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quod nomen specificium. Hafniae et Lipsiae: Copenhagen, Denmark. XVI, 452, [2] f. pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [full text] additional source: Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) 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] additional source: Burton, M. 1930c. Norwegian Sponges from the Norman Collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1930 (2): 487-546, pls I-II. [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   English purse sponge  [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Azores Canaries Madeira [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Celtic Seas [details] East Greenland Shelf [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] North Sea [details] Northern Norway and Finnmark [details] Southern Norway [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details]
Host of		Asterocheres echinicola (Norman, 1869) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links		Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland To Biodiversity Heritage Library (176 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection To ITIS
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132181
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van Soest, Rob
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		Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Grantia compressa (Fabricius, 1780). 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=132181 on 2013-05-23
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