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Porifera taxon details
original description
Dickinson, M.G. (1945). Sponges of the Gulf of California. Pp. 1-55, pls1-97. In: Reports on the collections obtained by Alan Hancock Pacific Expeditions of Velero III off the coast of Mexico, Central America, South America, and Galapagos Islands in 1932, in 1933, in 1934, in 1935, in 1936, in 1937, in 1939, and 1940. The University of Southern California Press, Los Angeles. [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Although the gender of Erylus is masculine, the suffix of the species name is -a, a typical feminine suffix and this potentially violates the required agreement in gender between genus and species name. Although Dickinson did not explain the derivation of the species name, we assume that he interpreted the name as a plural noun, discastera, and not as an adjective. [details]
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