Haliclona epiphytica

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Haplosclerida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Parazoa Phylum: Porifera Classis: Demospongiae Subclassis: Heteroscleromorpha Ordo: Haplosclerida

Familia: Chalinidae
Genus: Haliclona
Subgenus: Haliclona (Haliclona)
Species: Haliclona epiphytica

Name

Haliclona epiphytica Zea & de Weerdt, 1999: 172

• Holotype: ZMA POR. 15559, collected by S. Zea on 8 April 1981.
• Type locality: “in front of the slaughterhouse, city of Riohacha, Guajira penninsula, Colombian Caribbean; on the red alga Laurencia poitei (Lamouroux) Howe growing on a rock pavement of cobbles cemented by clay, 1 m in depth”.

References

Primary references

• Zea, S. & de Weerdt, W.H. 1999. Haliclona (Haliclona) epiphytica n. sp. (Porifera, Demospongiae, Haplosclerida), a seaweed-dwelling sponge from the Colombian Caribbean. Beaufortia 49(13): 171–176. PDF Reference page. 

Links

• Haliclona epiphytica in the World Register of Marine Species