Spongia gorgonocephalus

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Spongiidae
Genus: Spongia
Subgenus: Spongia (Heterofibria)
Species: Spongia gorgonocephalus

Name

Spongia gorgonocephalus Cook & Bergquist, 2001: 42

• Holotype: NMNZ PO.000441 (=SDCC/NZ141), collected by NZOI on 22 June 1981.
• Type locality: “Pinnacles, Poor Knights Islands, 35°33.0'S, 174°43.4'E, 152 m”.

References

Primary references

• Cook, S. de C. & Bergquist, P.R. 2001. New species of Spongia (Porifera: Demospongiae: Dictyoceratida) from New Zealand, and a proposed subgeneric structure. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 35(1): 33–58. DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2001.9516977 Reference page. 

Links

• Spongia gorgonocephalus in the World Register of Marine Species