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Niphates erecta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 
AphiaID: 166776

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Haplosclerina (Suborder) > Niphatidae (Family) > Niphates (Genus)
Status accepted
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Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Niphates Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Parent Niphates Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Synonymised
taxa
  Fibularia ramosa Carter, 1882 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Gelliodes areolata (Wilson, 1902) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Haliclona variabilis sensu de Laubenfels, 1950 (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Niphates thomasiana Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (junior synonym)
Niphates venosa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (junior synonym)
Pachychalina areolata Wilson, 1902 (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] [full text]

basis of record: Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Valentine, C. 2002. Family Niphatidae Van Soest, 1980. Pp. 874-890. 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: Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

original description (from synonym): Laubenfels, M.W. De 1950a. The Porifera of the Bermuda Archipelago. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 27(1):1-154, pls I-II. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

basis of record (from synonym): Wiedenmayer, F. 1977b. Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. Experientia Supplementum 28: 1-287, pls 1-43. [details] [view taxon]

additional source (from synonym): Rützler, K. 1986. Phylum Porifera (Sponges). Pp. 111-126, in: W. Sterrer (ed.) Marine Fauna and Flora of Bermuda. John Wiley & Sons, New York, i-xxx, 1-742. [details] [view taxon]

basis of record (from synonym): Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. 1983b. Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam 9(21): 189-205. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

original description (from synonym): Carter, H.J. 1882a. Some Sponges from the West Indies and Acapulco in the Liverpool Free Museum described, with general and classificatory Remarks. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 9(52): 266-301,346-368, pls XI-XII. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

original description (from synonym): Wilson, H.V. 1902 [1900]. The sponges collected in Porto Rico in 1899 by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Fish Hawk. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 2: 375-411. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Bahamian [details]
Belize [details]
Bermuda [details]
Bonaire [details]
British Virgin Islands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Cayman Islands [details]
Colombia [details]
Costa Rica [details]
Cuba [details]
Curaçao [details]
Eastern Caribbean [details]
Floridian [details]
Greater Antilles [details]
Hispaniola [details]
Jamaica [details]
Mexico [details]
Northern Gulf of Mexico [details]
Panama [details]
Puerto Rico [details]
Southern Caribbean [details]
Southern Gulf of Mexico [details]
Southwestern Caribbean [details]
United States part of the Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Venezuela [details]
Venezuelan Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Virgin Islands [details]
Western Caribbean [details]
Specimen  Lectotype: ZMA 01633, locality British Virgin Islands (St. Thomas) [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Niphates erecta)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Niphates erecta)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Niphates erecta)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:166776
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2007-11-22 14:23:56Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Niphates erecta 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=166776 on 2013-06-19
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