Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Haplosclerida > Suborder Haplosclerina > Family Chalinidae > Genus Haliclona > Subgenus Haliclona (Gellius)

Haliclona (Gellius) laxa (Topsent, 1892)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Haliclona*	Grant, 1836	accepted genus name
*Pellinula*	Czerniavsky, 1880	synonym
*Protoschmidtia*	Czerniavsky, 1880	synonym
*Tedaniella*	Czerniavsky, 1880	synonym

Species group names

*Rhaphisia laxa*	Topsent, 1892	basionym
*Rhaphisia laxa*	Topsent, 1892	synonym

Literature

original description	Topsent, E. 1892b. Diagnoses d’éponges nouvelles de la Méditerranée et plus particulièrement de Banyuls. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale (2) 10 (Notes et Revue 6) xvii-xxviii.
basis of record	De Weerdt, W.H. 2002. Family Chalinidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 852-873. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow).
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Haliclona (Gellius) laxa. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M.; Cárdenas, P. (2014) World Porifera database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132817