Porifera taxon details
original description
(of Aplysina herdmani Dendy, 1905) Dendy, A. (1905). Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman,at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>In: Herdman, W.A. (Ed.), Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. 3 (Supplement 18). (Royal Society: London).</em> Pp. 57-246, pls I-XVI. page(s): 225-226 [details] 
additional source
George, A.M.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Sluka, R.D.; Lazarus, S. (2020). A checklist of marine sponges (Porifera) of peninsula India. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4885(2): 277-300., available online at http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EC1CCF10-3E5F-4815-A393-AD9CF6B93C62 page(s): Table 2; note: Also as Smenospongia herdmani. [details] Available for editors [request]
new combination reference
(of Cacospongia herdmani (Dendy, 1905)) Burton, M. (1959). Sponges. <em>In: Scientific Reports. John Murray Expedition 1933-34. 10(5). British Museum (Natural History): London.</em> Pp. 151-281., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49512735 page(s): 271 [details] 
From editor or global species database
New combination George et al. (2021) transferred this species in their Table 2 to genus Smenospongia, but this needs to be further demonstrated. [details]
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