Acanthella (sponge)
Appearance
Acanthella | |
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Acanthella acuta | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Porifera |
Class: | Demospongiae |
Order: | Bubarida |
Family: | Dictyonellidae |
Genus: | Acanthella Schmidt, 1862 [1] |
Acanthella is a genus of sponges in the family Dictyonellidae, which was first described in 1862 by Eduard Oscar Schmidt.[1][2] The type species is Acanthella acuta Schmidt, 1862 (designated by Vosmaer in 1912).[3][4]
Species
[edit]According to the WoRMS database, accepted species are:[1]
- Acanthella aculeata Thiele, 1898
- Acanthella acuta Schmidt, 1862
- Acanthella annulata Sarà, 1958
- Acanthella branchia Sim, Kim & Byeon, 1990
- Acanthella calyx Dendy, 1922
- Acanthella cavernosa Dendy, 1922
- Acanthella costata Kieschnick, 1900
- Acanthella cubensis (Alcolado, 1984)
- Acanthella danerii Costa, Bavestrello, Pansini & Bertolino, 2020
- Acanthella dendyi (Bergquist, 1970)
- Acanthella erecta (Carter, 1876)
- Acanthella flabellata (Tanita, 1961)
- Acanthella flagelliformis (van Soest & Stentoft, 1988)
- Acanthella gorgonoides (Thomas, 1984)
- Acanthella hispida Pulitzer-Finali, 1982
- Acanthella insignis Thiele, 1898
- Acanthella klethra Pulitzer-Finali, 1982
- Acanthella ligulata (Burton, 1928)
- Acanthella mastophora (Schmidt, 1870)
- Acanthella megaspicula Thomas, 1984
- Acanthella minuta Tanita, 1968
- Acanthella multiformis Vosmaer, 1885
- Acanthella oviforma Tanita & Hoshino, 1989
- Acanthella pulcherrima Ridley & Dendy, 1886
- Acanthella ramosa Kumar, 1925
- Acanthella ramus (Sim, Kim & Byeon, 1990)
- Acanthella simplex Thiele, 1898
- Acanthella stanleei Nascimento, Cavalcanti & Pinheiro, 2019
- Acanthella styloida Tanita & Hoshino, 1989
- Acanthella tenuispiculata Dendy, 1897
- Acanthella vaceleti van Soest & Stentoft, 1988
- Acanthella vulgata Thiele, 1898
- Acanthella xutha (de Laubenfels, 1954)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Acanthella Schmidt, 1862". Marinespecies.org. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- ^ Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. pp. pls 1–7, 64–65.
- ^ "Australian Faunal Directory: Acanthella". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1912). "On the distinction between the genera Axinella, Phakellia, Acanthella a. o. Festschrift Spengel". Zoologische Jahrbücher. 15: 307-322 pls 15–16 [312].