Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Poecilosclerida > Suborder Myxillina > Family Myxillidae > Genus Myxilla > Subgenus Myxilla (Myxilla)

Myxilla (Myxilla) incrustans (Johnston, 1842)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Myxilla*	Schmidt, 1862	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Halichondria candida*	Bowerbank, 1866	basionym
*Halichondria incrustans*	Johnston, 1842	basionym; alternate representation
*Halichondria candida*	Bowerbank, 1866	synonym
*Halichondria incrustans*	Johnston, 1842	synonym; alternate representation
*Myxilla incrustans*	(Johnston, 1842)	synonym; alternate representation

Children

Myxilla (Myxilla) incrustans var. viscosa (Topsent, 1892)

Literature

original description	Johnston, G. 1842. A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes.(W.H. Lizars: Edinburgh): i-xii, 1-264, pls I-XXV.
original description	Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Myxillidae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 602-620. 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).

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
GBIF

Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Myxilla (Myxilla) incrustans (Johnston, 1842). 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:169466

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Occurrence

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Native

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Managed

No data

Environment

marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

IUCN:
Red List status LC 2009 This species is least concern and is widespread and abundant according to the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

This species is least concern and is widespread and abundant according to the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

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Last modified

2010-03-22 by Rob van Soest

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