Petrosia pellasarca (De Laubenfels, 1934) 
AphiaID: 716554

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Petrosina (Suborder) > Petrosiidae (Family) > Petrosia (Genus)

Status		alternate representation (subgenus assignment)
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name		Petrosia (Petrosia) pellasarca (de Laubenfels, 1934)
Rank		Species
Parent		Petrosia Vosmaer, 1885
Sources		original description: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1934. New sponges from the Puerto Rican deep. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 91(17): 1-28. [details] [full text] additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stentoft, N. 1988. Barbados Deep-Water Sponges. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 122. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao andother Caribbean Islands, 70(215): 1-175. [details] [full text] new combination reference: Zea, S. 1987. Esponjas del Caribe Colombiano. (Catálogo Cientifico:Bogotá, Colombia): 1-286. [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Distribution		Barbados Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Southern Caribbean [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:716554
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2013-01-24 21:05:13Z   created   van Soest, Rob
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		Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Petrosia pellasarca (De Laubenfels, 1934). 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=716554 on 2013-06-18