Spirastrella coccinea (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) 
AphiaID: 170705

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Spirastrellidae (Family) > Spirastrella (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Spirastrella Schmidt, 1868
Synonymised taxa		Thalysias coccinea Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer)
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] additional source: Lehnert, H.; Van Soest, R.W.M. 1999. More North Jamaican deep fore-reef sponges. Beaufortia 49(12): 141-169. [details] [full text] additional source: 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] new combination reference: 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]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Bahamian [details] Belize [details] Bermuda [details] Bonaire [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cayman Islands [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Eastern Caribbean [details] Floridian [details] Greater Antilles [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Hispaniola [details] Jamaica [details] Jamaican Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Mexico [details] Northern Gulf of Mexico [details] Panama [details] Southern Caribbean [details] Venezuela [details] Virgin Islands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Western Caribbean [details]
Links		To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 8 proteins) To The Sponge Guide To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection To ITIS
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170705
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2005-07-10 18:05:41Z   created   db_admin 2006-09-24 09:30:04Z   changed   van Soest, Rob
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		Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spirastrella coccinea (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=170705 on 2013-05-25