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WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Ophlitaspongia meyeri Bowerbank, 1877) Bowerbank, J.S. (1877). Descriptions of five new species of sponges discovered by A.B. Meyer on the Philippine Islands and New Guinea. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1877: 456-464. [details]
basis of record
Hooper, J.N.A. (1996). Revision of Microcionidae (Porifera: Poecilosclerida: Demospongiae), with description of Australian species. <em>Memoirs of the Queensland Museum.</em> 40: 1-626., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40092950 [details]
From editor or global species database
Type material Dresden Museum, but according to Hooper, 1996: 175, the material was destroyed during WWII. There should be some fragments in the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH 1877.5.2.21.1306-1309). [details]
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