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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHippospongia gossypina (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) 
AphiaID: 165107

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPorifera (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDemospongiae (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDictyoceratida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongiidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHippospongia (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHippospongia Schulze, 1879
Synonymised
taxa		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHippiospongia gossypina (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (genus transfer)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHippospongia dentata (Hyatt, 1877) (genus transfer)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongia dentata Hyatt, 1877 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongia equina gossypina Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongia gossypina Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongia gossypina alba Hyatt, 1877 (junior synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongia gossypina dendritica Hyatt, 1877 (junior synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongia gossypina porosa Hyatt, 1877 (junior synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongia lapidescens Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongia lapidescens dentata Hyatt, 1877 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongia lapidescens intermedia Hyatt, 1877 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongia lapidescens tetheaformis Hyatt, 1877 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongia lapidescens turrita Hyatt, 1877 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongia lapidescens typica Hyatt, 1877 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Sources  original description Duchassaing De Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV. [details]

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Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution 
From editor or global species database
Caribbean Sea
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaribbean Sea [details]
Gulf of Mexico
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGulf of Mexico [details]
(no group)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBahamian [details]
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBermuda [details]
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEastern Caribbean [details]
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorFloridian [details]
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGreater Antilles [details]
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNorthern Gulf of Mexico [details]
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPuerto Rico and Virgin Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVirgin Islands [from synonym] [view taxon]
From other sources
Cuba
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorCuba [details]
North Atlantic Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorBahamas Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorBermudian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
(no group)
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorCuban Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Specimens 
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLectotype [from synonym] MSNT Por. 96, locality Greater Antilles (Virgin Islands, Vieques) [view taxon]
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLectotype [from synonym] MSNT Por. 108, locality Greater Antilles (Virgin Islands, Vieques) [view taxon]

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Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
ImagesChecked: verified by a taxonomic editor 
Spongia gossypina lectotype specimen
Spongia gossypina lect...
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Spongia gossypina paralectotype specimen
Spongia gossypina para...
[image from synonym]
Spongia lapidescens lectotype specimen
Spongia lapidescens le...
[image from synonym]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165107
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2010-05-04 18:29:28Z  checked  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Hippospongia gossypina (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864). 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=165107 on 2013-12-09
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