Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Poecilosclerida > Suborder Mycalina > Family Merliidae

Merlia Kirkpatrick, 1908

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Merlia deficiens Vacelet, 1980
Merlia normani Kirkpatrick, 1908

Literature

original description

Kirkpatrick, R. 1908d. On Two new Genera of Recent Pharetronid Sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 2 (12): 503-514,pls XIII-XV.

basis of record

Hajdu, E.; Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Merliidae Kirkpatrick, 1908. Pp. 691-693. 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).

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Merlia Kirkpatrick, 1908. 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:168479

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2010-10-15 by Rob van Soest

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