Invertebrate Zoology PORb-59: Phakellia tenax

Sombrero Key
Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: United States: Florida
1 May 1868
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Identifications

Phakellia tenax Schmidt, 1870

Animalia Porifera Demospongiae Halichondrida Axinellidae Phakellia tenax

Identified by Edward Oskar Schmidt on 1870-01-01
Nature of ID: type ID

Citations

Schmidt 1870, Page 62, Syntype of Phakellia tenax

plate 4, figure 16

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Media Details
Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes

Locality and Collecting Event Details

Continent/Ocean:	Atlantic Ocean
Country:	United States
State/Province:	Florida
Specific Locality:	Sombrero Key
Verbatim Locality:	Sombrero Key, Florida reef
Locality Remarks:	[May 1868, Pourtales and 152 fathoms is with historical data, other information inferred]
Collecting Source:	wild caught
Depth:	152 fms
Coordinates:	24° 18´ 0´´ N 80° 58´ 30´´ W (Datum: unknown)
	[no agent data]; 1868-05-01; Source: Lists of Dredging Stations in North American Water from 1867-1887 by Sanderson Smith
Collecting Date:	1 May 1868

Collectors

US Coast Survey, 1867-1871

Louis F. Pourtales

Steamer Bibb

Identifiers

other number: PORa-9107

station number: Dredging No. 4

Part Details

Part Name	Condition	Disposition	#	Remarks
whole animal (dry)	fair	in collection	1	in 4 pieces

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