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 incrustans*	Johnston, 1842	basionym; alternate representation
*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

External Links

Link To GBIF

Citation

van Soest, R. (2012). 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. (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:169466