Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Hadromerida > Family Clionaidae > Genus Spiroxya

Spiroxya levispira (Topsent, 1898)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Spiroxya*	Topsent, 1896	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Cliona levispira*	Topsent, 1898	basionym
*Cliona levispira*	Topsent, 1898	synonym

Literature

original description	Topsent, E. 1898b. Eponges nouvelles des Açores. (Première serie) Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France (11): 225-255.
basis of record	Rützler, K. 2002. Family Alectonidae Rosell, 1996. Pp. 281-290. 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.; Beglinger, E.J. 2009. New bioeroding sponges from Mingulay coldwater reefs, north-west Scotland. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 89 (2): 329-335.

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Taxonomy

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External Links

GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Spiroxya levispira (Topsent, 1898). 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:183648