WoRMS name details
Cinachyra subterranea van Soest & Sass, 1981
190458 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:190458)
unaccepted (genus transfer)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Van Soest, R.W.M.; Sass, D.B. (1981). Amsterdam expeditions to the West Indian Islands, report 13. Marine sponges from an island cave on San Salvador Island, Bahamas. <em>Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde.</em> 51 (2): 332-344. (look up in IMIS) [details] 
Holotype ZMA Por. 04581, geounit Bahamian
Holotype ZMA Por. 04581, geounit Bahamian [details]
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.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2026). World Porifera Database. Cinachyra subterranea van Soest & Sass, 1981. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=190458 on 2026-03-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Van Soest, R.W.M.; Sass, D.B. (1981). Amsterdam expeditions to the West Indian Islands, report 13. Marine sponges from an island cave on San Salvador Island, Bahamas. <em>Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde.</em> 51 (2): 332-344. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype ZMA Por. 04581, geounit Bahamian [details]
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Synonymy Rützler (1987) originally thought that this species was conspecific with Cinachyrella alloclada. Later Rützler and Smith (1992) re-examined the type and concluded that it was conspecific instead with Cinachyrella apion. [details]
