Hymedesmia Bowerbank, 1864 
AphiaID: 131950

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Porifera > Demospongiae > Poecilosclerida > Myxillina > Hymedesmiidae

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Genus
Parent		Hymedesmiidae Topsent, 1928
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: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Hymedesmiidae. In:Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera, a guide to the classification of sponges. Pp 575-593. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York. [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]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Subgenus Hymedesmia (Hymedesmia) Bowerbank, 1864    » Species Hymedesmia (Hymedesmia) canadensis Ginn, Logan, Thomas & van Soest, 1998 Species Hymedesmia canadensis Ginn, Logan, Thomas & van Soest, 1998 represented as Hymedesmia (Hymedesmia) canadensis Ginn, Logan, Thomas & van Soest, 1998 (alternate representation, subgenus assignment)
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Distribution		Anakao [details] Inhaca Island [details]
Links		To GenBank To ITIS
Note		Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131950
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van Soest, Rob 2005-11-15 15:22:23Z   changed   van Soest, Rob 2005-11-15 15:40:21Z   changed   van Soest, Rob 2006-12-22 16:04:03Z   changed   van Soest, Rob 2010-07-15 08:28:38Z   changed   van Soest, Rob
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		Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Hymedesmia 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: Kennedy, M.K., L. Van Guelpen, G. Pohle, L. Bajona (Eds.) (2013) Canadian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131950 on 2013-05-26