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Spongia lapidescens Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 
AphiaID: 193621

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Spongiidae (Family) > Spongia (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
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Accepted name  Hippospongia gossypina (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Rank Species
Parent Spongia Linnaeus, 1759
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]

additional source: 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] [full text]

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]

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Subspecies Spongia lapidescens dentata Hyatt, 1877 accepted as Hippospongia gossypina (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Subspecies Spongia lapidescens intermedia Hyatt, 1877 accepted as Hippospongia gossypina (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Subspecies Spongia lapidescens mauritiana Hyatt, 1877 accepted as Hippospongia mauritiana (Hyatt, 1877)
Subspecies Spongia lapidescens tetheaformis Hyatt, 1877 accepted as Hippospongia gossypina (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Subspecies Spongia lapidescens turrita Hyatt, 1877 accepted as Hippospongia gossypina (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Subspecies Spongia lapidescens typica Hyatt, 1877 accepted as Hippospongia gossypina (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Variety Spongia lapidescens var. tetheaformis Hyatt, 1877 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) tetheaformis Hyatt, 1877
Variety Spongia lapidescens var. turrita Hyatt, 1877 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) turrita Hyatt, 1877
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Specimen  Lectotype: MSNT Por. 96, locality Greater Antilles (Virgin Islands, Vieques) [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
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Spongia lapidescens lectotype specimen
Spongia lapidescens lectotype specimen
added on 2013-02-19 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2013-02-19 14:39:45
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:193621
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2005-12-18 15:00:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-05-04 18:29:28Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongia lapidescens 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/authority/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=193621 on 2013-05-23
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