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Porifera taxon details

Axinyssa tuscara (Ristau, 1978)

746616 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:746616)

accepted
Species
Axinomimus tuscarus Ristau, 1978 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Hymeniacidon tuscara (Ristau, 1978) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Axinomimus tuscarus Ristau, 1978) Ristau, D.A. (1978). Six new species of shallow-water marine demosponges from California. <em>Proceedings Biological Society Washington.</em> 91(3): 569-589. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 583-584 [details] OpenAccess publication
Holotype  (of Axinomimus tuscarus Ristau, 1978) USNM...  
Holotype (of Axinomimus tuscarus Ristau, 1978) USNM 24527, geounit Northern California [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. (2025). World Porifera Database. Axinyssa tuscara (Ristau, 1978). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php/www.aqua-aquapress.com/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=746616 on 2026-08-17
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original description (of Axinomimus tuscarus Ristau, 1978) Ristau, D.A. (1978). Six new species of shallow-water marine demosponges from California. <em>Proceedings Biological Society Washington.</em> 91(3): 569-589. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 583-584 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Turner, T.L., Morrow, C., Picton, B., Goodwin, C. & Thacker, R.W. (2025). A Common Garden of <i>Halichondria</i> Sponges: Taxonomic Revision of Northeast Pacific Halichondriidae Reveals Many Cryptic Introduced Species. <em>Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists.</em> 4(1): 1-56., available online at https://doi.org/10.18061/bssb.5811
page(s): 49 [details] OpenAccess publication

new combination reference (of Hymeniacidon tuscara (Ristau, 1978)) Lee, W.L.; Elvin, D.W.; Reiswig, H.M. (2007). The sponges of California. A guide and Key to the marine sponges of California. Monterey Bay Sanctuary Foundation, Monterey, CA, USA: i-x, 1-265. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype (of Axinomimus tuscarus Ristau, 1978) USNM 24527, geounit Northern California [details]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Assignment to Axinyssa was made on the basis of the description by Ristau, 1978. [details]
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