Polymastia penicillus (Montagu, 1818) 
AphiaID: 170654

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

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Polymastia Bowerbank, 1864
Sources		original description: Montagu, G. 1818. An Essay on Sponges, with Descriptions of all the Species that have been discovered on the Coast of Great Britain. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 2(1): 67-122, pls III-XVI. [details] [full text] basis of record: Morrow, C.; Boury-Esnault, N. 2000. Redescription of the type species of the genus Polymastia Bowerbank, 1864 (Porifera,Demospongiae, Hadromerida). Zoosystema 22(2): 327-335. [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: Boury-Esnault, N. 1974. Structure et ultrastructure des papilles d'éponges du genre Polymastia Bowerbank. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale & générale, 115(1), 141-165 [details] [full text] additional source: Stone, S. M., Boardley, E., and Gill, M. 1987 Field characteristics of some conspicuous sublittoral sponges from Roaringwater Bay, County Cork, Ireland. in European contributions to the taxonomy of sponges, Jones W.C. (ed.). Publications of the Sherkin island marine station, 1: 130-140  [details] [full text] additional source: Boury-Esnault, N. 1987. The Polymastia species (Demosponges, Hadromerida) of the Atlantic Area. Pp. 29-66. In: Vacelet, J. & Boury-Esnault, N. (Eds), Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. NATO ASI Series G 13. (Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg): 1-332. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Levinsen, G.M.R. 1887. Kara-Havets Svampe (Porifera). Dijmphna-Togtets zoologisk-botaniske Udbytte 1: 339-372, pls XXIX-XXXI. [details] [full text]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Celtic Seas [details] Kara Sea (probably not valid) [details] North Sea [details] South European Atlantic Shelf [details] United Kingdom [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links		Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170654
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2005-07-10 18:05:41Z   created   db_admin 2010-04-21 13:31:10Z   checked   van Soest, Rob
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		Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Polymastia penicillus (Montagu, 1818). 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=170654 on 2013-05-21
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