Pachymatisma johnstonia

Pachymatisma johnstonia

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Geodiidae
Genus: Pachymatisma
Species: Pachymatisma johnstonia

Name

Pachymatisma johnstonia (Bowerbank in Johnston, 1842)

• Holotype: BMNH BK 839, No. R2.3.7.9 (177 h) (slides).
• Type locality: “attached to the Thatcher, and other rocks in the neighbourhood of Torquay about low-water-mark”.

Combinations

• Halichondria johnstonia Bowerbank in Johnston, 1842: 198 [original combination]
• Pachymatisma johnstonia — Bowerbank in Johnston, 1842: 244 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Johnston, G. 1842. A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes. W.H. Lizars: Edinburgh. i–xii + 264 pp., pls. I–XXV. BHL Reference page. 

Links

• Pachymatisma johnstonia in the World Register of Marine Species