Porifera name details
Ophlitaspongia meyeri Bowerbank, 1877
192743 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:192743)
unaccepted (genus transfer)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Bowerbank, J.S. (1877). Descriptions of five new species of sponges discovered by A.B. Meyer on the Philippine Islands and New Guinea. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1877: 456-464. [details] 
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2024). World Porifera Database. Ophlitaspongia meyeri Bowerbank, 1877. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=192743 on 2024-05-02
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original description
Bowerbank, J.S. (1877). Descriptions of five new species of sponges discovered by A.B. Meyer on the Philippine Islands and New Guinea. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1877: 456-464. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Holotype Dresden Museum, but according to Hooper, 1996: 175, the material was destroyed during WWII. There should be some fragments in the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH 1877.5.2.21.1306-1309). [details]Spelling The genus name was misspelled as Ophlitospongia. [details]
