WoRMS name details
Paresperella toxifera Lévi, 1963
234213 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234213)
unaccepted (genus transfer and preoccupied)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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): 14 [details] Available for editors
[request]
page(s): 14 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Type locality contained in Agulhas Bank
type locality contained in Agulhas Bank [details]
Homonymy This species is not conspecific with Esperella toxifera Dendy, 1896 (now Mycale (Carmia) toxifera). As Paresperella is...
Homonymy This species is not conspecific with Esperella toxifera Dendy, 1896 (now Mycale (Carmia) toxifera). As Paresperella is currently a subgenus of Mycale the present species name became a junior homonym of Dendy's toxifera and needed a new name.
[details]
[details]
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. Paresperella toxifera Lévi, 1963. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=234213 on 2024-04-24
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
original description
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): 14 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 14 [details] Available for editors
[request] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Homonymy This species is not conspecific with Esperella toxifera Dendy, 1896 (now Mycale (Carmia) toxifera). As Paresperella is currently a subgenus of Mycale the present species name became a junior homonym of Dendy's toxifera and needed a new name.[details]
