Mycale (Arenochalina) laxissima (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) 
AphiaID: 168561

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Mycalina (Suborder) > Mycalidae (Family) > Mycale (Genus) > Mycale (Arenochalina) (Subgenus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Mycale (Arenochalina) Lendenfeld, 1887
Synonymised taxa		Acamas laxissima Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer) Acamasina laxissima Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer) Esperella nuda Ridley & Dendy, 1886 (genus transfer and junior synonym) Hircinia cartilaginea var. horrida Hyatt, 1877 (genus transfer and junior synonym) Hircinia horrida Hyatt, 1877 (genus transfer and junior synonym) Hircinia purpurea Whitfield, 1901 (genus transfer and junior synonym) Mycale (Acamasina) laxissima (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (subgenus transfer) Mycale angulosa sensu De Laubenfels, 1936 (junior synonym) Mycale hyatti Pulitzer-Finali, 1986 (junior synonym) Mycale jamaicaensis Pulitzer-Finali, 1986 (junior synonym) Mycale laxissima (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (subgenus assignment) Mycale mucifluens Pulitzer-Finali, 1986 (junior synonym) Mycale whitfieldi Pulitzer-Finali, 1986 (junior synonym) Strongylacidon horridum (Hyatt, 1877) (genus transfer and junior synonym) Thorecta horrida (Hyatt, 1877) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Sources		original description: Duchassaing De Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV. [details] [full text] basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. 2002. Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. 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] from synonym: Hyatt, A. 1877. Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Ridley, S.O.; Dendy, A. 1886. Preliminary Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. ‘Challenger’. Annals and Magazine of Natural History(5) 18: 325-351, 470-493. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Ridley, S.O.; Dendy, A. 1887. Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. ‘Challenger’ during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Challenger’, 1873-1876.Zoology 20(59): i-lxviii, 1-275, pls I-LI, 1 map. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Whitfield, R.P. (1901). Notice of a new sponge from Bermuda and of some other forms from the Bahamas. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 14: 47-50; pls I-V (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Pulitzer-Finali, G. 1986. A collection of West Indian Demospongiae (Porifera). In appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the West Indies. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria 86: 65-216. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1936a. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Carnegie Institute of Washington (Tortugas Laboratory Paper N° 467) 30: 1-225, pls 1-22. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1984b. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part III. Poecilosclerida. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 112. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 62 (191): 1-173. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Wiedenmayer, F. 1977b. Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. Experientia Supplementum 28: 1-287, pls 1-43. [details] [view taxon]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Distribution		Bahamas (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Bahamas Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Bahamian [details] Belize (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Bonaire (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] British Virgin Islands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] British Virgin Islands Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Cayman Islands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Colombia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Costa Rica (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Cuba (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Curaçao (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Eastern Caribbean [details] Florida (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Floridian [details] Greater Antilles [details] Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Hispaniola (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Jamaica (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Jamaican Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Netherlands Antilles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Panama (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Puerto Rico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Southern Caribbean [details] United States part of the Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Venezuela (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Virgin Islands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Specimens		Holotype (from synonym): AMNH 106 [view taxon] Holotype (from synonym): AMNH 106, locality Bahamian (Bahamas, New Providence Island, Nassau Harbor) [view taxon] Nontype (from synonym): ZMA Por. 03592, locality Netherlands Antilles (Curaçao, near Carmabi) [view taxon] Nontype (from synonym): ZMA Por. 03950, locality Netherlands Antilles (Curaçao, Piscadera Baai, innerbay, on piles of Hilton Hotel landing) [view taxon] Nontype (from synonym): ZMA Por. 04616, locality Netherlands Antilles (Curaçao, Piscadera Baai, innerbay, on piles of Hilton Hotel landing) [view taxon] Nontype (from synonym): ZMA Por. 04245, locality Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire, Lac, Poejito) [view taxon] Holotype (from synonym): Mus. Torino Por. 34, locality Virgin Islands (St. Thomas) [view taxon]
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LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168561
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2005-07-10 18:05:41Z   created   db_admin 2010-05-31 13:43:21Z   checked   van Soest, Rob
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		Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Mycale (Arenochalina) laxissima (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 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: 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=168561 on 2013-05-21