Myliusia callocyathus Gray, 1859 
AphiaID: 171666

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Hexactinellida (Class) > Hexasterophora (Subclass) > Hexactinosida (Order) > Sceptrulophora (Suborder) > Euretidae (Family) > Chonelasmatinae (Subfamily) > Myliusia (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Typetaxon of		Myliusia Gray, 1859
Parent		Myliusia Gray, 1859
Synonymised taxa		Dactylocalyx callocyathus (Gray, 1859) (reverted genus transfer)
Sources		original description: Gray, J.E. 1859. Description of MacAndrewia and Myliusia, two new forms of Sponges. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 27: 437-440, pls XV-XVI. [details] [full text] basis of record: Reiswig, H.M.; Wheeler, B. (2002). Family Euretidae Zittel, 1877, in: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. pp. 1301-1331 (look up in IMIS) [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] source of synonymy (from synonym): Schmidt, O. 1880b. Die Spongien des Meerbusen von Mexico (Und des caraibischen Meeres). Heft II. Abtheilung II. Hexactinelliden. Abtheilung III. Tetractinelliden. Monactinelliden und Anhang. Nachträge zu Abtheilung I (Lithistiden). Pp. 33-90, pls V-X. In: Reports on the dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, by the USCSS ‘Blake’. (Gustav Fischer:Jena). [details] [view taxon] [full text] context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Distribution		Barbados [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cuba (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Eastern Caribbean [details] Greater Antilles [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Northern Gulf of Mexico [details] Saint Lucia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Virgin Islands [details] West Indies [details]
Specimen		Holotype: BMNH 1988.6.27.1 , locality West Indies [details]
Links		To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection To ITIS
Note		Original spelling M. callocyathes, but corrected to M. callocyathus by Schulze, 1887. [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:171666
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2005-07-10 18:05:41Z   created   db_admin 2008-09-19 12:19:46Z   changed   van Soest, Rob
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		Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Myliusia callocyathus Gray, 1859. 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=171666 on 2013-06-19