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Zyzzya fuliginosa (Carter, 1879) 
AphiaID: 167454

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Microcionina (Suborder) > Acarnidae (Family) > Zyzzya (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Zyzzya de Laubenfels, 1936
Synonymised
taxa
  Aka laccadivensis Thomas, 1989 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Damirina laccadivensis Thomas, 1989 (inadequately described, unillustrated, no mention of type material)
Damirina verticillata Burton, 1959 (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Lissodendoryx massalis (Dendy, 1922) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Paracornulum atoxa Vacelet, Vasseur & Lévi, 1976 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Plocamia massalis Dendy, 1922 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Suberites fuliginosa Carter, 1879 (genus transfer)
Zyzzya massalis (Dendy, 1922) (junior synonym)
Sources  original description: Carter, H.J. 1879b. Contributions to our Knowledge of the Spongida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 3: 284-304, 343-360,pls XXV-XXVII. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Zea, S.; Kielman, M. 1994. New species of Zyzzya, Cornulella, Damiria, and Acheliderma (Porifera: Poecilosclerida), with a review of fistular genera of Iophonidae. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 64(3): 163-192. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Acarnidae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 412-431. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details]

from synonym: Burton, M. 1959a. Sponges. Pp. 151-281. In: Scientific Reports. John Murray Expedition, 1933-34. 10(5). [(British Museum (Natural History): London]). [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Hooper, J.N.A.; Krasochin, V.B. 1989. Redescription of the burrowingsponge Zyzzya massalis (Dendy) from the Seychelles and Houtman-Abrolhos Islands. The Beagle, Records of the NorthernTerritory Museum of Arts and Sciences 6(1): 133-140. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Thomas, P.A. 1981. A second collection of marine Demospongiae from Mahe Island in the Seychelles Bank (Indian Ocean). Annalen. Reeks in 8 - Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: zoologische wetenschappen, 233. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: Tervuren, Belgium. 54 plates pp. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Vacelet, J.; Vasseur, P.; Lévi, C. 1976. Spongiaires de la pente externe des récifs coralliens de Tuléar (Sud-Ouest de Madagascar). Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (A, Zoologie) 49:1-116, pls I-X. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Dendy, A. 1922b. Report on the Sigmatotetraxonida collected by H.M.S.‘Sealark’ in the Indian Ocean. Pp. 1-164, pls 1-18. In: Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, Volume 7. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (2), 18(1). [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Thomas, P.A. 1973a. Marine Demospongiae of Mahe Island in the Seychelles Bank (Indian Ocean). Annales du Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale. Série in 8vo. Sciences zoologiques (203): 1-96, pls 1-8. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Thomas, P.A. 1989. Sponge fauna of Lakshadweep. Bulletin of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute 43: 150-161. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Kelly, M. (2009). Demospongiae, Calcarea (Porifera). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Australia [details]
East African Coral Coast (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
India (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Indian Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Madagascan Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mahe Island (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Maldives (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Seychelles [details]
Tanzanian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Torres Strait Northern Great Barrier Reef [details]
Western and Northern Madagascar [details]
Western India [details]
Specimen  Holotype (from synonym): BMNH 1936.3.4.510, locality East African Coral Coast (Zanzibar area, stat. 112, bottom coral rock.) [view taxon]
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:167454
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2008-03-05 20:09:45Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Zyzzya fuliginosa (Carter, 1879). 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=167454 on 2013-05-26
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