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Myrmekioderma Ehlers, 1870 
AphiaID: 131794

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Halichondrida (Order) > Heteroxyidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Alcyonium granulatum Esper, 1794 (type by monotypy)
Parent Heteroxyidae Dendy, 1905
Synonymised
taxa
  Acanthoxifer Dendy, 1905 (junior synonym)
Anacanthaea Row, 1911 (junior synonym)
Anacanthea Row, 1911 (misspelling)
Neoprosypa de Laubenfels, 1954 (junior synonym)
Sources  original description: Ehlers, E. 1870. Die Esper’schen Spongien in der zoologischen Sammlung der K. Universität Erlangen. (E.Th. Jacob: Erlangen): 1-36. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Desmoxyidae Hallmann, 1916. Pp. 755-772. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details]

additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103 (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Dendy, A. 1905. Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman,at Ceylon, in 1902. Pp. 57-246, pls I-XVI. 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). [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Row, R.W.H. 1911. Reports on the Marine Biology of the Sudanese Red Sea, from Collections made by Cyril Crossland, M.A., B.Sc., F.Z.S. XIX. Report on the Sponges collected by Mr. Cyril Crossland in 1904-5. Part II. Non-Calcarea. Journal of the Linnean Society. Zoology 31 (208): 287-400, pls 35-41. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Díaz, M.C.; Pomponi, S.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. 1993. A systematic revision of the central West Atlantic Halichondrida (Demospongiae, Porifera). Part III: Description of valid species. Pp. 283-306. In: Uriz, M.-J. & Rützler, K. (Eds), Recent Advances in Ecology and Systematics of Sponges. Scientia Marina, 57(4): 273-4. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1954a. The Sponges of the West-Central Pacific. Oregon State Monographs. Studies in Zoology 7: i-x, 1-306,pls I-XII. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

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taxa

[show all]
 Species Myrmekioderma dendyi (Burton, 1959)
Species Myrmekioderma granulatum (Esper, 1794)
Species Myrmekioderma gyroderma (Alcolado, 1984)
Species Myrmekioderma niveum (Row, 1911)
Species Myrmekioderma pacificum Pulitzer-Finali, 1996
Species Myrmekioderma rea (de Laubenfels, 1934)
Species Myrmekioderma spelaeum (Pulitzer-Finali, 1983)
Species Myrmekioderma tuberculatum (Keller, 1891)

Species Myrmekioderma granulata (Esper) accepted as Myrmekioderma granulatum (Esper, 1794)
Species Myrmekioderma spelaea (Pulitzer-Finali, 1983) accepted as Myrmekioderma spelaeum (Pulitzer-Finali, 1983)
Species Myrmekioderma styx de Laubenfels, 1953 accepted as Myrmekioderma rea (de Laubenfels, 1934)
Species Myrmekioderma tylota de Laubenfels, 1954 accepted as Myrmekioderma granulatum (Esper, 1794)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Tuléar [details]
Links To GenBank
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131794
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2005-08-01 12:12:31Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-05-31 13:43:21Z  checked  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Myrmekioderma Ehlers, 1870. 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: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131794 on 2013-05-18
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