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Porifera taxon details

Hexasterophora 
AphiaID: 131590

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Hexactinellida (Class)
Authority Schulze, 1886
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Subclass
Parent Hexactinellida
Sources  original description: Schulze, F.E. 1886. Über den Bau und das System der Hexactinelliden. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Physikalisch-Mathematisch Classe) 1886: 1-97. [details]

basis of record: Reiswig, H. 2002. Class Hexactinellida Schmidt, 1870. Pp. . In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, MosReisw (look up in IMIS[details] [full text]

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
 Order Aulocalycoida
Order Hexactinosida
Order Lychniscosida
Order Lyssacinosida

Order Fieldingida accepted as Sceptrulophora
Order Hexactinosa accepted as Hexactinosida
Order Lychniscosa accepted as Lychniscosida
Order Lyssacinosa accepted as Lyssacinosida
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Links To GenBank
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131590
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2008-09-21 18:07:31Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Hexasterophora. 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: 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 at http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=131590 on 2013-05-22
  


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