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Porifera taxon details

Monanchora Carter, 1883 
AphiaID: 169014

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Myxillina (Suborder) > Crambeidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
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Typetaxon Monanchora clathrata Carter, 1883 (type by monotypy)
Parent Crambeidae Lévi, 1963
Synonymised
taxa
  Amorphoclada Topsent, 1930 (junior synonym)
Ectyobatzella Burton & Rao, 1932 (junior synonym)
Fasubera de Laubenfels, 1936 (junior synonym)
Fasuberea Lévi, 1958 (misspelling of junior synonym)
Folitispa de Laubenfels, 1936 (junior synonym)
Neofolitispa Bergquist, 1965 (junior synonym)
Okadaia de Laubenfels, 1936 (junior synonym)
Sources  original description: Carter, H.J. 1883c. New Genus of Sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 11: 369-370, pl. XV fig. 10. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Crambeidae Lévi, 1963. Pp. 547-555. 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]

original description (from synonym): Burton, M.; Srinivasa Rao, H. 1932. Report on the shallow-water marine sponges in the collection of the Indian Museum. Part I. Records of the Indian Museum 34: 299-358. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

original description (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]

original description (from synonym): Topsent, E. 1930. Chondrocladia yatsui n.sp., de la Baie de Sagami. Annotationes zoologicae japonenses 12: 421-432. [details] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Bergquist, P.R. 1965. The Sponges of Micronesia, Part I. The Palau Archipelago. Pacific Science 19(2): 123-204. [details] [view taxon]

basis of record (from synonym): Lévi, C. 1958. Résultats scientifiques des Campagnes de la ‘Calypso’.Campagne 1951-1952 en Mer Rouge (suite). 11. Spongiaires de Mer Rouge recueillis par la ‘Calypso’ (1951-1952). Annales de l’Institut océanographique 34(3): 3-46. [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Monanchora alaskensis (Lambe, 1895)
Species Monanchora arbuscula (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Species Monanchora brasiliensis Esteves, Lerner, Lôbo-Hajdu & Hajdu, 2012
Species Monanchora clathrata Carter, 1883
Species Monanchora dianchora de Laubenfels, 1935
Species Monanchora enigmatica (Burton & Rao, 1932)
Species Monanchora laevissima (Dendy, 1922)
Species Monanchora laminachela Lehnert, Stone & Heimler, 2006
Species Monanchora lipochela (Dendy, 1922)
Species Monanchora pulchra (Lambe, 1895)
Species Monanchora quadrangulata (Lévi, 1958)
Species Monanchora stocki van Soest, 1990
Species Monanchora unguiculata (Dendy, 1922)
Species Monanchora viridis (Kieschnick, 1900)

Species Monanchora barbadensis Hechtel, 1969 accepted as Monanchora arbuscula (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To GenBank
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Monanchora sp. 994)
To ITIS
Note  Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:169014
Taxonomic
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2007-04-03 09:09:18Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Monanchora Carter, 1883. 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=169014 on 2013-06-19
  


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