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Porifera name details
Raspailia elegans
(Lendenfeld, 1887)
AphiaID
168083
(urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168083)
Classification
Biota
Animalia
(Kingdom)
Porifera
(Phylum)
Demospongiae
(Class)
Heteroscleromorpha
(Subclass)
Axinellida
(Order)
Raspailiidae
(Family)
Raspailiinae
(Subfamily)
Raspailia
(Genus)
Raspailia elegans
(Species)
Status
alternative representation
(subgenus assignment)
Accepted name
Raspailia (Parasyringella) elegans
(Lendenfeld, 1887)
Rank
Species
Parent
Raspailia
Nardo, 1833
Original name
Antherochalina elegans
Lendenfeld, 1887
Environment
marine,
brackish
,
fresh
,
terrestrial
Fossil range
recent only
Original description
(of
Antherochalina elegans
Lendenfeld, 1887
)
Lendenfeld, R. von. (1887). Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher, Jena.</em> 2: 723-828, pls XVIII-XXVII.
page(s): 787
[details]
Taxonomic citation
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. (2025). World Porifera Database.
Raspailia elegans
(Lendenfeld, 1887). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=168083 on 2026-08-25
Taxonomic edit history
Date
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z
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db_admin
2007-05-21 18:29:48Z
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van Soest, Rob W.M.
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Sources (1)
Documented distribution (0)
Notes (1)
Links (4)
original description
(of
Antherochalina elegans
Lendenfeld, 1887
)
Lendenfeld, R. von. (1887). Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher, Jena.</em> 2: 723-828, pls XVIII-XXVII.
page(s): 787
[details]
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Synonymy
Homonym, not synonym, of Raspailia (Raspaxilla) elegans Boury-Esnault, 1973.
[details]
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Raspailia elegans)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
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