''Dasychalina fragilis'' is a species of sponge described by
Stuart Oliver Ridley
Stuart Oliver Ridley (1853–1935) was an English cleric and zoologist.
Early life
He was born in 1853, the son of the Rev. Oliver Matthew Ridley and his first wife Laura Pole Stuart (died 1858), daughter of Sir William Stuart; Henry Nicholas Rid ...
and
Arthur Dendy in 1886.
''Dasychalina fragilis'' belongs to the genus
Dasychalina
''Dasychalina'' is a genus of sponges in the family Niphatidae
Niphatidae is a family of demosponges in the order Haplosclerida, first described in 1980 by Rob van Soest. It contains the following genera:
* ''Amphimedon (sponge), Amphimedon'' ...
and the family
Niphatidae
Niphatidae is a family of demosponges in the order Haplosclerida, first described in 1980 by Rob van Soest. It contains the following genera:
* ''Amphimedon (sponge), Amphimedon'' Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
* ''Cribrochalina'' Schmidt, 1870
...
.
The species' range is in the Philippines.
References
[Ridley, S.O.; Dendy, A. (1886) Preliminary Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. ‘Challenger’., Annals and Magazine of Natural History(5) 18: 325-351, 470-493.]
[Ridley, S.O.; Dendy, A. (1887) Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. ‘Challenger’ during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Challenger’, 1873-1876., Zoology 20(59): i-lxviii, 1-275, pls I-LI, 1 map.]
[''WoRMS Porifera: World Porifera Database''. Soest R. van (ed), 2008-10-22]
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Haplosclerida