WoRMS taxon details
Amphilectus Vosmaer, 1880
AphiaID: 131933
AphiaID: 131933
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Mycalina (Suborder) > Esperiopsidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Isodictya gracilis Bowerbank, 1866 (type by subsequent designation) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Esperiopsidae Hentschel, 1923 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Brondstedia Burton, 1929 (junior synonym) Corybas Gray, 1867 (preoccupied) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Vosmaer, G.C.J. 1880. The Sponges of the Leyden Museum. 1. The family of the Desmacidinae. Notes from the Leyden Museum 2: 99-164. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. 2002. Family Esperiopsidae Hentschel, 1923. Pp. 656-664. 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] additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Beglinger, E.J.; De Voogd, N.J. 2012. Sponges of the family Esperiopsidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from Northwest Africa, with the descriptions of four new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 18: 1-21. [details] additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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: Burton, M. 1929a. Porifera. Part II. Antarctic sponges. British Antarctic (‘Terra Nova’) Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report, London, British Museum (Natural History). Zoology 6(4): 393-458,pls I-V. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Gray, J.E. 1867a. Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details] [view taxon] [full text] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Amphilectus americanus (Ridley & Dendy, 1887) Species Amphilectus columnatus (Topsent, 1890) Species Amphilectus dactylus Goodwin, Jones, Neely & Brickle, 2011 Species Amphilectus digitatus (Miklucho-Maclay, 1870) Species Amphilectus flabellatus Burton, 1932 Species Amphilectus fleecei Goodwin, Jones, Neely & Brickle, 2011 Species Amphilectus fucorum (Esper, 1794) Species Amphilectus glaber (Brøndsted, 1924) Species Amphilectus informis (Stephens, 1915) Species Amphilectus laxus (Lambe, 1893) Species Amphilectus lesliei (Uriz, 1988) Species Amphilectus lobatus (Montagu, 1818) Species Amphilectus munitus Whitelegge, 1907 Species Amphilectus pedicellatus (Lundbeck, 1905) Species Amphilectus rugosus (Thiele, 1905) Species Amphilectus strepsichelifer Van Soest, Beglinger & De Voogd, 2012 Species Amphilectus typichela (Lundbeck, 1905) Species Amphilectus unciger (Topsent, 1928) Species Amphilectus utriculus Van Soest, Beglinger & De Voogd, 2012 Species Amphilectus annectens Ridley & Dendy, 1886 accepted as Megaciella annectens (Ridley & Dendy, 1886) Species Amphilectus apollinis Ridley & Dendy, 1886 accepted as Artemisina apollinis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886) Species Amphilectus armatus (Bowerbank, 1866) accepted as Clathria (Microciona) armata (Bowerbank, 1862) Species Amphilectus caducum (Schmidt, 1868) accepted as Lissodendoryx (Lissodendoryx) caduca (Schmidt, 1868) Species Amphilectus ceratosus Ridley & Dendy, 1886 accepted as Tedaniphorbas ceratosus (Ridley & Dendy, 1886) Species Amphilectus challengeri Ridley, 1885 accepted as Esperiopsis challengeri (Ridley, 1885) Species Amphilectus dubius (Bowerbank, 1874) accepted as Amphilectus fucorum (Esper, 1794) Species Amphilectus edwardii (Bowerbank, 1866) accepted as Amphilectus fucorum (Esper, 1794) Species Amphilectus foliata (Bowerbank, 1874) accepted as Clathria (Clathria) barleei (Bowerbank, 1866) Species Amphilectus gerzensteini Swartschevsky, 1906 accepted as Crella gerzensteini (Swartschevsky, 1906) Species Amphilectus gracilis (Bowerbank, 1866) accepted as Amphilectus fucorum (Esper, 1794) Species Amphilectus hispidulus Ridley, 1884 accepted as Clathria (Clathria) hispidula (Ridley, 1884) Species Amphilectus imitatus (Bowerbank, 1874) accepted as Amphilectus fucorum (Esper, 1794) Species Amphilectus incrustans (Johnston, 1842) accepted as Myxilla (Myxilla) incrustans (Johnston, 1842) Species Amphilectus laciniosa (Bowerbank in Norman, 1869) accepted as Clathria (Clathria) barleei (Bowerbank, 1866) Species Amphilectus lobata (Montagu, 1818) accepted as Amphilectus lobatus (Montagu, 1818) Species Amphilectus mutilus (Bowerbank, 1874) accepted as Clathria (Clathria) barleei (Bowerbank, 1866) Species Amphilectus osculosus Topsent, 1892 accepted as Phorbas osculosus (Topsent, 1892) Species Amphilectus papillatus Vosmaer, 1880 accepted as Esperiopsis papillata (Vosmaer, 1880) Species Amphilectus pilosus Ridley & Dendy, 1886 accepted as Megaciella pilosa (Ridley & Dendy, 1886) Species Amphilectus strongylatus Alander, 1942 accepted as Esperiopsis strongylatus (Alander, 1942) Species Amphilectus svarchevskyi de Laubenfels, 1936 accepted as Clathria (Microciona) armata (Bowerbank, 1862) Species Amphilectus tibiellifer Ridley, 1884 accepted as Megaciella tibiellifera (Ridley, 1884) Species Amphilectus unguiculatus Dendy, 1922 accepted as Monanchora unguiculata (Dendy, 1922) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Classification: Amphilectus is very close to Esperiopsis. Amphilectus was recently re-erected in the Systema Porifera (Van Soest & Hajdu, 2002) inspired by a threatening replacement of Esperiopsis by the older name Amphilectus. The differences were more or less artificially established as presence (Esperiopsis) or absence (Amphilectus) of sigmas and/or other microscleres in addition to the palmate chelae, and independently the size of the megascleres (over 400 microns in length: Esperiopsis, under 400: Amphilectus). Helmut Lehnert (in litteris) pointed out that several species so far (February 2006) retained in Esperiopsis conform to Amphilectus according to above given differences. Accordingly, we adapted genus names from his suggestions, even though such genus transfer proposals were not officially published. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131933 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Amphilectus Vosmaer, 1880. 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=131933 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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