WoRMS name details

Fibulia ectyofibrosa (Lévi, 1963)

234271  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234271)

 unaccepted (genus transfer and misspelling of species name)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Desmacidon ectofibrosa Lévi, 1963) Lévi, C. (1963). Spongiaires d'Afrique du Sud. (1) Poecilosclérides. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa.</em> 37(1): 1-72, pls I-X.
page(s): 26-27 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2024). World Porifera Database. Fibulia ectyofibrosa (Lévi, 1963). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=234271 on 2024-04-23
Date
action
by
2006-11-08 08:06:59Z
created
2007-07-05 12:35:40Z
changed
2018-09-04 11:26:16Z
changed
2020-02-25 16:39:13Z
changed

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original description  (of Desmacidon ectofibrosa Lévi, 1963) Lévi, C. (1963). Spongiaires d'Afrique du Sud. (1) Poecilosclérides. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa.</em> 37(1): 1-72, pls I-X.
page(s): 26-27 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record Samaai, T.; Gibbons, M.J. (2005). Demospongiae taxonomy and biodiversity of the Benguela region on the west coast of South Africa. <em>African Natural History.</em> 1: 1-96.
page(s): 57-59 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Spelling Not only did Samaai & Gibbons misspell the species name ectofibrosa as ectyofibrosa, but they also misspelled the genus name Fibulia as Fibula. This cannot be corrected with a separate Porifera record because Fibula is a valid name in Mollusca. [details]