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  • Invertebrate Zoology PORb-174 MCZ Invertebrate Zoology
  • Rhizaxinella clava
  • whole animal (70% ethanol)
  •    Syntype of Axinella clava
  • W. of Tortugas
  • Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: United States: Florida
  • January 16, 1869
Identifications
Rhizaxinella clava (Schmidt, 1870)
Animalia Porifera Demospongiae Hadromerida Suberitidae Rhizaxinella clava
Identified by Klaus Ruetzler, Belinda Alvarez de Glasby on 1991-12-01
Nature of ID: expert ID
Axinella clava Schmidt, 1870
Animalia Porifera Demospongiae Halichondrida Axinellidae Axinella clava
Identified by Edward Oskar Schmidt on 1870-01-01
Nature of ID: type ID
Citations
Schmidt 1870, Page 61, Syntype of Axinella clava
Type status questionable
Van Soest 2017, Page 189, Additional Material of Rhizaxinella clava
doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4217.1.1
not referenced in publication but insight into species description
 
Media of type text, Schmidt 1870. Description:Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes
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Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes
 
Locality and Collecting Event Details
Continent/Ocean: Atlantic Ocean
Country: United States
State/Province: Florida
Specific Locality: W. of Tortugas
Collecting Source: wild caught
Depth: 68 fms
Collecting Date: January 16, 1869
Collectors
US Coast Survey, 1867-1871
Louis F. Pourtales
Identifiers
other number: PORa-8072
station number: Cast No. 13
Part Details
Part Name Condition Disposition # Remarks
whole animal (70% ethanol) good in collection 1
Media
 
Media of type image, MCZ:IZ:PORb-174 Identified as Rhizaxinella clava type status Additional Material of Rhizaxinella clava| Syntype of Axinella clava.

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Media of type image, MCZ:IZ:PORb-174 Identified as Rhizaxinella clava type status Additional Material of Rhizaxinella clava| Syntype of Axinella clava.

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Media of type text, Invertebrate Zoology PORb-174. Description:MCZ Invertebrate Zoology Sponges cards

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MCZ Invertebrate Zoology Sponges cards

 
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