BeRMS taxon details

Tethyspira spinosa (Bowerbank, 1874) 
AphiaID: 132558

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Porifera > Demospongiae > Halichondrida > Dictyonellidae > Tethyspira
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Tethyspira Topsent, 1890
Sources  original description: Bowerbank, J.S. 1874b. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae.Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Erpenbeck, D.; Alvarez De Glasby, B. 2002. Family Dictyonellidae Van Soest, Diaz & Pomponi, 1990. Pp. 773-786. 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: 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]

additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1993a. Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 159: 205-219. [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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English pork scratching sponge  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Cape Verde [details]
Celtic Seas [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
North Atlantic [details]
North Sea [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Africa [details]
West Coast of France [details]
West Mediterranean [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132558
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2007-01-15 19:17:36Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2007-08-20 14:47:02Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Tethyspira spinosa (Bowerbank, 1874). 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=132558 on 2013-05-20
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