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Porifera name details

Ophlitaspongia meyeri Bowerbank, 1877

192743  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:192743)

 unaccepted (genus transfer)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Bowerbank, J.S. (1877). Descriptions of five new species of sponges discovered by A.B. Meyer on the Philippine Islands and New Guinea. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1877: 456-464. [details]  OpenAccess publication 
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2024). World Porifera Database. Ophlitaspongia meyeri Bowerbank, 1877. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=192743 on 2024-04-16
Date
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2005-12-18 15:00:44Z
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2009-05-23 19:27:33Z
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original description Bowerbank, J.S. (1877). Descriptions of five new species of sponges discovered by A.B. Meyer on the Philippine Islands and New Guinea. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1877: 456-464. [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Holotype Dresden Museum, but according to Hooper, 1996: 175, the material was destroyed during WWII. There should be some fragments in the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH 1877.5.2.21.1306-1309). [details]

Spelling The genus name was misspelled as Ophlitospongia[details]


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