Halisarca melana

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Halisarcidae
Genus: Halisarca
Species: Halisarca melana

Name

Halisarca melana de Laubenfels, 1954: 50

• Holotype: USNM 22915, collected on 1 September 1949.
• Type locality: “Iwayama Bay, Koror, in the Palaus. The depth was 2 meters, and the substrate was dead coral”.

References

Primary references

• de Laubenfels, M.W. 1954. The Sponges of the West-Central Pacific. Oregon State Monographs. Studies in Zoology 7: i–x, 1–306, pls I–XII. BHL

Additional references

• Bergquist, P.R. & Kelly, M. 2004. Taxonomy of some Halisarcida and Homosclerophorida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the Indo-Pacific. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 38(1): 51–66. DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2004.9517217 . Reference page. 

Links

• Halisarca melana in the World Register of Marine Species