WoRMS taxon details
Sigmadocia amboinensis (Lévi, 1961)
AphiaID: 221085
AphiaID: 221085
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Haplosclerina (Suborder) > Chalinidae (Family) > Sigmadocia (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (genus transfer) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Haliclona (Gellius) amboinensis (Lévi, 1961) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Sigmadocia de Laubenfels, 1936 accepted as Haliclona (Gellius) Gray, 1867 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Lévi, C. 1961c. Éponges intercotidales de Nha Trang (Vietnam). Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale 100: 127-148. [details] [full text]
additional source: Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | East African Coral Coast [details] Quirimba Archipelago [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Encrusting, 2-5 cm wide, 4-7 mm thick. Surface undulating translucent "skin" over meandering subdermal canals. Oscules less than 1 mm diameter and regularly spaced. Body barely compressible, brittle and slightly gritty. Colour icy blue to lavender, occasionally pale greenish-blue. Broods orange larve in pockets within sponge body. Habitat: overhangs on fringing reefs and under lower eulittoral boulders. Distribution: Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1997). [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:221085 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Sigmadocia amboinensis (Lévi, 1961). 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=221085 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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