Pipestela
Sign in to savePipestela is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Axinellidae. The species of this genus are found in Australian waters, New Guinea and other countries to the north of Australia.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumPorifera
- ClassDemospongiae
- OrderAxinellida
- FamilyAxinellidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 22
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Axinellidae
- Collections
- CAS, WAM
- Recorded in
- Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Australia, South Africa
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Axinellidae
- Image
- Pipestela candelabra.jpeg
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- taxon name
- Pipestela
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon author citation
- Alvarez, Hooper & Van Soest, 2008
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Pipestela is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Axinellidae. The species of this genus are found in Australian waters, New Guinea and other countries to the north of Australia.
The genus was first described in 2008.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pipestela” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.