Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Poecilosclerida > Suborder Mycalina > Family Desmacellidae > Genus Biemna

Biemna variantia (Bowerbank, 1858)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Biemna*	Gray, 1867	accepted genus name
*Biemma*	Bowerbank, 1882	orthographic variant
*Biemma*	Bowerbank, 1882	synonym

Species group names

*Desmacella groenlandica*	Fristedt, 1887	basionym
*Desmacella hamifera*	Lundbeck, 1902	basionym
*Desmacella peachii*	(Bowerbank, 1866)	basionym
*Desmacella peachii var. groenlandica*	Fristedt, 1887	basionym
*Desmacella variantia*	(Bowerbank, 1858)	basionym
*Biemna gemmulifera*	(Breitfuss, 1912)	synonym
*Biemna peachii*	(Bowerbank, 1866)	synonym
*Desmacella groenlandica*	Fristedt, 1887	synonym
*Desmacella hamifera*	Lundbeck, 1902	synonym
*Desmacella peachii*	(Bowerbank, 1866)	synonym
*Desmacella peachii var. groenlandica*	Fristedt, 1887	synonym
*Desmacella variantia*	(Bowerbank, 1858)	synonym

Literature

original description	Bowerbank, J.S. 1858. On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part I. On the Spicula. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 148(2): 279-332, pls XXII-XXVI.
basis of record	Hajdu, E.; Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Desmacellidae Ridley & Dendy, 1886. Pp. 642-650. 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	Brunel, P., L. Bosse, and G. Lamarche. 1998. Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.
additional source	Pansini, M. 1987a. Littoral demosponges from the banks of the Strait of Sicily and the Alboran Sea. Pp. 149-185. In: Vacelet, J. & Boury-Esnault, N. (Eds), Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic andMediterranean Sea. NATO ASI Series G 13. (Springer-Verlag: Berlin,Heidelberg): 1-332.
additional source	Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp.
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
additional source	Maldonado, M. (1992). Demosponges of the red coral bottoms from the Alboran Sea. J. Nat. Hist. 26: 1131-1161

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2012). Biemna variantia (Bowerbank, 1858). 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. (2012) World Porifera database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2012) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:133205