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Porifera taxon details

Lefroyella Thomson, 1878 
AphiaID: 171715

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Hexactinellida (Class) > Hexasterophora (Subclass) > Hexactinosida (Order) > Sceptrulophora (Suborder) > Euretidae (Family) > Euretinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Lefroyella decora Thomson, 1878 (type by monotypy)
Parent Euretinae Zittel, 1877
Synonymised
taxa
  Syringidium Schmidt, 1880 (junior synonym)
Sources  original description: Thomson, C.W. 1878. Voyage of the 'Challenger'. The Atlantic. Volume 1. (Macmillan and Co.: London): ix-xxix, 1-424. [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]

original description (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]

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taxa

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 Species Lefroyella ceramensis Ijima, 1927
Species Lefroyella decora Thomson, 1878
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:171715
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2008-10-17 08:32:13Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2009-12-11 13:30:48Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Lefroyella Thomson, 1878. 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=171715 on 2013-06-19
  


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