Axinella flustra (Topsent, 1892) 
AphiaID: 132476

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Halichondrida (Order) > Axinellidae (Family) > Axinella (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Axinella Schmidt, 1862
Synonymised taxa		Axidragma padina (Topsent, 1896) (genus transfer and junior synonym) Axinella padina Topsent, 1896 (junior synonym) Tragosia flustra Topsent, 1892 (genus transfer)
Sources		original description: Topsent, E. 1892a. Contribution à l’étude des Spongiaires de l’Atlantique Nord (Golfe de Gascogne, Terre-Neuve, Açores). Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco 2: 1-165, pls I-XI. [details] [full text] 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] additional source: Burton, M. 1956. The sponges of West Africa. Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen) 4: 111-147. [details] from synonym: Topsent, E. 1896a. Matériaux pour servir à l’étude de la faune des spongiaires de France. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France (9):113-133. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Hallmann, E.F. 1917b [1916]. A revision of the genera with microscleres included, or provisionally included, in the family Axinellidae; with descriptions of some Australian species. Part III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41(164): 634-675, pls XXIX,figs 3, 5, 6; XXXIII, fig. 6; XXXVIII, figs 5-9 [details] [view taxon] [full text]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Distribution		Abrolhos Archipelago [details] Azores [details] Cape Verde [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] France (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] French Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] North Atlantic [details] North Coast of Spain [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] South European Atlantic Shelf [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Africa [details] West Mediterranean [details]
Specimens		Unknown type: MNHN DT 900, locality Azores [details] Unknown type (from synonym): MNHN DT 2353, locality Banyuls [view taxon]
Links		Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS
Notes		Holotype: MOM [details] Type locality: W of Portugal [details]
Image		Axinella flustra Topsent, 1892 added on 2006-04-06 - author: BioMar-TCD qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2013-01-11 11:39:37
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132476
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van Soest, Rob 2005-09-09 16:45:37Z   changed   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2006-11-28 13:22:27Z   changed   van Soest, Rob 2007-07-27 12:35:06Z   changed   van Soest, Rob
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		Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Axinella flustra (Topsent, 1892). 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.eu/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=132476 on 2013-05-25