WoRMS name details
Psammascus psellus Laubenfels, 1936
193117 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:193117)
unaccepted (genus transfer)
Species
Psammascus Marshall, 1880 accepted as Psammoclema Marshall, 1880
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1936). A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. <em>Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication.</em> 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30) 1-225, pls 1-22.
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Holotype USNM 22438, geounit Floridian
Holotype USNM 22438, geounit Floridian [details]
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Psammascus psellus Laubenfels, 1936. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=193117 on 2025-04-17
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Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1936). A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. <em>Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication.</em> 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30) 1-225, pls 1-22.
page(s): 96-97; pl 6 fig 1 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype USNM 22438, geounit Floridian [details]
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Classification The species was described as having strongyles and sigmas, but in a slide studied by Van Soest & Stentoft (1988) these spicules were rare and not clearly separated from the mass of foreign spicules and sand grains making up the skeleton. The identity of this specimen conforms to the Keratose genus Hyrtios and possibly to the type species H. proteus. However, this synonymy was not published, as Van Soest & Stentoft provided the identity as Hyrtios ? psellus, in a table without further notes or explanation. The species remains a taxon inquirendum. [details]
