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Porifera taxon details

Tedania brondstedi Burton, 1936 
AphiaID: 194284

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Myxillina (Suborder) > Tedaniidae (Family) > Tedania (Genus)
Status alternate representation (subgenus assignment)
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Accepted name  Tedania (Tedania) brondstedi Burton, 1936
Rank Species
Parent Tedania Gray, 1867
Source  original description: Burton, M. 1936a. Notes on Sponges from South Africa, with Descriptions of new Species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10) 17 (97): 141-147. [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution South African Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Notes  Levi (1963) considered this to be a junior synonym of Tedania scotiae Stephens, 1915. The specimens need to be compared, but since Burton distinguished two size categories of onychaetes and Levi mentions only a single category we keep the species separate for the time being.  [details]

Holotype: BMNH 1935.10.21.1 [details]

Type locality: Oude Kraal, South Africa [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:194284
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2005-12-18 15:00:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-11-17 19:35:29Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2007-06-02 12:52:07Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Tedania brondstedi Burton, 1936. 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=194284 on 2013-05-24
  


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