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Aka de Laubenfels, 1936 
AphiaID: 131850

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Petrosina (Suborder) > Phloeodictyidae (Family)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (Junior synonymy with insect genus Aka White, 1879. Reverting to next available name.)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Siphonodictyon Bergquist, 1965
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Acca insidiosa Johnson, 1899 (type by original designation)
Parent Phloeodictyidae Carter, 1882
Synonymised
taxa
  Acca Johnson, 1899 (preoccupied)
Sources  original description: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1936a. 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. Carnegie Institute of Washington (Tortugas Laboratory Paper N° 467) 30: 1-225, pls 1-22. [details]

basis of record: Rützler, K.; Stone, S.M. 1986. Discovery and significance of Albany Hancock’s microscope preparations of excavating sponges (Porifera:Hadromerida: Clionidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 99(4): 658-675. [details]

basis of record: Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Valentine, C. 2002. Family Phloeodictyidae Carter, 1882. Pp. 893-905. 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). [details]

basis of record: Schönberg, C.H.L.; Beuck, L. 2007. Where Topsent went wrong: Aka infesta a.k.a. Aka labyrinthica (Demospongiae: Phloeodictyidae) and implications for other Aka species. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 87: 1459-1476. [details]

additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103 (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Johnson, J.Y. 1899. Notes on some Sponges belonging to the Clionidae obtained at Madeira. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society 1899:461-463, pl. VI. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Aka trachys de Laubenfels, 1954

Species Aka brevitubulata (Pang, 1973) accepted as Siphonodictyon brevitubulatum Pang, 1973
Species Aka cachacrouensis (Rützler, 1971) accepted as Siphonodictyon cachacrouense Rützler, 1971
Species Aka coralliirubri Calcinai, Cerrano & Bavestrello, 2007 accepted as Siphonodictyon coralliirubri (Calcinai, Cerrano & Bavestrello, 2007)
Species Aka coralliophaga (Stephens, 1915) accepted as Spongosorites coralliophaga (Stephens, 1915)
Species Aka coralliphaga (Rützler, 1971) accepted as Siphonodictyon coralliphagum Rützler, 1971
Species Aka coralliphagum (Rützler, 1971) accepted as Siphonodictyon coralliphagum Rützler, 1971
Species Aka cryptica Carballo, Hepburn, Nava, Cruz-Barraza & Bautista-Guerrero, 2007 accepted as Siphonodictyon crypticum (Carballo, Hepburn, Nava, Cruz-Barraza & Bautista-Guerrero, 2007)
Species Aka densa (Schmidt, 1870) accepted as Siphonodictyon densum (Schmidt, 1870)
Species Aka diagonoxea Thomas, 1968 accepted as Siphonodictyon diagonoxeum (Thomas, 1968)
Species Aka infesta (Johnson, 1889) accepted as Siphonodictyon infestum (Johnson, 1889)
Species Aka insidiosa (Johnson, 1899) accepted as Siphonodictyon insidiosum (Johnson, 1889)
Species Aka labyrinthica (Hancock, 1849) accepted as Siphonodictyon labyrinthicum (Hancock, 1849)
Species Aka laccadivensis Thomas, 1989 accepted as Zyzzya fuliginosa (Carter, 1879)
Species Aka maldiviensis Calcinai, Cerrano, Sarà & Bavestrello, 2000 accepted as Siphonodictyon maldiviensis (Calcinai, Cerrano, Sarà & Bavestrello, 2000)
Species Aka microterebrans Calcinai, Cerrano & Bavestrello, 2007 accepted as Siphonodictyon microterebrans (Calcinai, Cerrano & Bavestrello, 2007)
Species Aka minuta Thomas, 1973 accepted as Siphonodictyon minutum (Thomas, 1973)
Species Aka mucosa (Bergquist, 1965) accepted as Siphonodictyon mucosum Bergquist, 1965
Species Aka nodosa (Hancock, 1849) accepted as Siphonodictyon nodosum (Hancock, 1849)
Species Aka paratypica Fromont, 1993 accepted as Siphonodictyon paratypicum (Fromont, 1993)
Species Aka rodens (Johnson, 1899) accepted as Siphonodictyon insidiosum (Johnson, 1889)
Species Aka ruetzleri Calcinai, Cerrano & Bavestrello, 2007 accepted as Siphonodictyon ruetzleri (Calcinai, Cerrano & Bavestrello, 2007)
Species Aka siphona (de Laubenfels, 1949) accepted as Siphonodictyon siphonum (de Laubenfels, 1949)
Species Aka terebrans (Schmidt, 1870) accepted as Siphonodictyon terebrans (Schmidt, 1870)
Species Aka xamaycaensis (Pulitzer-Finali, 1986) accepted as Siphonodictyon xamaycaense Pulitzer-Finali, 1986
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
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Note  Preoccupied by Aka White, 1879 (Hemiptera) [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131850
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2008-03-08 15:57:44Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2012-03-27 01:22:31Z  changed  Schönberg, Christine
  
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  Citation: Schönberg, C.; van Soest, R. (2013). Aka de Laubenfels, 1936. 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.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M. (2013) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131850 on 2013-05-25
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