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

Merlia normani Kirkpatrick, 1908

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Merlia*	Kirkpatrick, 1908	accepted genus name

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).
additional source	Burton, M. 1956. The sponges of West Africa. Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen) 4: 111-147.
additional source	Vacelet, J. 1961b. Quelques Eponges remarquables de Méditerranée.Revue des Travaux de l’Institut des Pêches maritimes 25(3): 351-354.
additional source	Cruz, T. 2002. Esponjas marinas de Canarias. Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias, S/C Tenerife. 260 pp.
additional source	Kirkpatrick, R. 1911a. On Merlia normani, a Sponge with a Siliceous and Calcareous Skeleton. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 56 (4): 657-702, pls 32-38.

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Taxonomy

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External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications)
The Sponge Guide
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
GBIF

Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Merlia normani 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:168482