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Porifera taxon details

Malawispongiidae 
AphiaID: 167022

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Spongillina (Suborder)
Authority Manconi & Pronzato, 2002
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Family
Parent Spongillina
Source  original description: Manconi, R.; Pronzato, R. 2002. Suborder Spongillina subord. nov.: Freshwater sponges. Pp. 921-1020. 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] [full text]
Note: The PDF supplied here is a proof - NOT the definitive printed text - of a chapter of the Systema Porifera


Direct child
taxa
 Genus Cortispongilla Annandale, 1918
Genus Malawispongia Brien, 1972
Genus Ochridaspongia Arndt, 1937
Genus Pachydictyum Weltner, 1901
Genus Spinospongilla Brien, 1974
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To GenBank
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Note  endemic to some ancient lakes [details]
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2010-06-18 13:38:23Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2010). Malawispongiidae. In: Van Soest, R.W.M, Boury-Esnault, N., Hooper, J.N.A., Rützler, K, de Voogd, N.J., Alvarez, B., Hajdu, E., Pisera, A.B., Vacelet, J. Manconi, R., Schoenberg, C., Janussen, D., Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M. (Eds) (2010). World Porifera database. Accessed through: Van Soest, R.W.M, Boury-Esnault, N., Hooper, J.N.A., Rützler, K, de Voogd, N.J., Alvarez, B., Hajdu, E., Pisera, A.B., Vacelet, J. Manconi, R., Schoenberg, C., Janussen, D., Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M. (Eds) (2010). World Porifera database at http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=167022 on 2010-07-30


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