WoRMS taxon details
Characella Sollas, 1886
AphiaID: 132012
AphiaID: 132012
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Pachastrellidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Characella aspera Sollas, 1886 (type by original designation) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Pachastrellidae Carter, 1875 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Neothenea de Laubenfels, 1934 (junior synonym) Yodomia Lebwohl, 1914 (junior synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Sollas, W.J. 1886a. Preliminary account of the Tetractinellid sponges Dredged by H.M.S. ‘Challenger’ 1872-76. Part I. The Choristida. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society (new series) 5:177-199. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Maldonado,M.,2002. Family Pachastrellidae. Pp.141-162. In: Hooper, J.N.A., van Soest,R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York, 1708 pp. [details] additional source: Kelly, M. (2009). Demospongiae, Calcarea (Porifera). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] original description (from synonym): Lebwohl, F. 1914a. Japanische Tetraxonida, I. Sigmatophora und II.Astrophora metastrosa. Journal of the College of Sciences, Imperial University of Tokyo 35(2): 1-116, pls I-IX. [details] [view taxon] [full text] original description (from synonym): Laubenfels, M.W. De 1934. New sponges from the Puerto Rican deep. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 91(17): 1-28. [details] [view taxon] [full text] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Characella abbreviata Wilson, 1925 Species Characella agassizi Sollas, 1886 Species Characella aspera Sollas, 1886 Species Characella capitolii Mothes, Maldonado, Eckert, Lerner, Campos & Carraro, 2007 Species Characella connectens (Schmidt, 1870) Species Characella enae (de Laubenfels, 1934) Species Characella flexibilis Lévi, 1993 Species Characella ijimai (Lebwohl, 1914) Species Characella laevis Lebwohl, 1914 Species Characella pachastrelloides (Carter, 1876) Species Characella reticulata Lebwohl, 1914 Species Characella stellettodes (Carter, 1885) Species Characella tripodaria (Schmidt, 1868) Species Characella saxicola Topsent, 1892 accepted as Poecillastra saxicola (Topsent, 1892) Species Characella sollasi Topsent, 1890 accepted as Characella pachastrelloides (Carter, 1876) Species Characella tuberosa Lévi, 1964 accepted as Poecillastra tuberosa (Lévi, 1964) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Erected for type species Characella aspera by original designation. [details] Taxonomic status: Characella is clearly an Astrophorid species. For the time being, we allocated it to Pachastrellidae even if its relationships with the other genera of the family are not clearly established (Cardenas & Rapp, 2012). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132012 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Characella Sollas, 1886. 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=132012 on 2013-06-18 | ||||||||||||||
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