Spongia stricta Vio in Olivi, 1792 
AphiaID: 714909

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Spongiidae (Family) > Spongia (Genus)

Status		species inquirenda
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Spongia Linnaeus, 1759
Source		original description: Vio, G. in Olivi, G. 1792. (Letter on sponges from the Gulf of Smyrna), pp. xi-xxxi extracted from the book ' Zoologia Adriatica'. Bassano. [details] [full text]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Distribution		Turkish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Note		Schmidt (1862), followed by Pick (1905) suggested that this could be a Raspailia and the drawing in Olivi's Pl. VIII fig. 2 indeed shows a likeness to R. hispida. [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:714909
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2013-01-08 11:29:29Z   created   van Soest, Rob
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		Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongia stricta Vio in Olivi, 1792. 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=714909 on 2013-05-20