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Poecillastra Sollas, 1888 
AphiaID: 132016

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Vulcanellidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Ecionemia compressa Bowerbank, 1866 (type by original designation)
Parent Vulcanellidae Cárdenas, Xavier, Reveillaud, Schander & Rapp, 2011
Synonymised
taxa
  Chelotropaena Lendenfeld, 1907 (junior synonym)
Normania Bowerbank, 1869 (preoccupied)
Sources  original description: Sollas, W.J. 1888. Report on the Tetractinellida 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 25(63): 1-458, pls I-XLIV, 1 map. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Cárdenas P, Xavier JR, Reveillaud J, Schander C, Rapp HT (2011) Molecular Phylogeny of the Astrophorida (Porifera, Demospongiae) Reveals an Unexpected High Level of Spicule Homoplasy. PLoS ONE 6(4) , available online at http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0018318 [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: 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]

additional source: Cárdenas,P.; Rapp, H. T. 2012. A review of Norwegian streptaster-bearing Astrophorida (Porifera:Demospongiae:Tetractinellida), new records and a new species. Zootaxa, 3253, 1-52 , available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/f/zt03253p053.pdf [details]

original description (from synonym): Lendenfeld, R. Von 1907a. Die Tetraxonia. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf der Dampfer Valdivia 1898-1899 11(1-2): i-iv, 59-374, pls IX-XLVI. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

original description (from synonym): Bowerbank, J.S. 1869a. Shetland Final Dredging Report. Part 2. On the Crustacea, Tunicata, Polyzoa, Echinodermata, Actinozoa, Hydrozoaand Porifera. Report of the British Association for the Advancementof Science 38: 247-336. [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Poecillastra antonbruunae Carvalho, Desqueyroux-Faúndez & Hajdu, 2011
Species Poecillastra ciliata Wilson, 1925
Species Poecillastra compressa (Bowerbank, 1866)
Species Poecillastra crassiuscula (Sollas, 1886)
Species Poecillastra cribraria Wilson, 1904
Species Poecillastra cumana Vosmaer, 1894
Species Poecillastra eccentrica Dendy & Burton, 1926
Species Poecillastra fragilis Vosmaer, 1894
Species Poecillastra incrustans Sollas, 1888
Species Poecillastra japonica (Thiele, 1898)
Species Poecillastra laminaris (Sollas, 1886)
Species Poecillastra maremontana Carvalho, Desqueyroux-Faúndez & Hajdu, 2011
Species Poecillastra rickettsi de Laubenfels, 1930
Species Poecillastra rudiastra Pulitzer-Finali, 1983
Species Poecillastra saxicola (Topsent, 1892)
Species Poecillastra schulzei (Sollas, 1886)
Species Poecillastra sinetridens Carvalho, Desqueyroux-Faúndez & Hajdu, 2011
Species Poecillastra stipitata Lévi, 1993
Species Poecillastra symbiotica Topsent, 1902
Species Poecillastra tenuilaminaris (Sollas, 1886)
Species Poecillastra tenuirhabda (Lendenfeld, 1907)
Species Poecillastra tuberosa (Lévi, 1964)
Species Poecillastra wondoensis Sim & Kim, 1995

Species Poecillastra amygdaloides (Carter, 1876) accepted as Nethea amygdaloides (Carter, 1876)
Species Poecillastra armata Hanitsch, 1895 accepted as Characella tripodaria (Schmidt, 1868)
Species Poecillastra aspera (Sollas, 1886) accepted as Characella aspera Sollas, 1886
Species Poecillastra dissimilis (Sarà, 1959) accepted as Dercitus (Stoeba) dissimilis (Sarà, 1959)
Species Poecillastra nana (Carter, 1880) accepted as Nethea nana (Carter, 1880)
Species Poecillastra pachastrelloides (Carter, 1876) accepted as Characella pachastrelloides (Carter, 1876)
Species Poecillastra scabra (Schmidt, 1868) accepted as Poecillastra compressa (Bowerbank, 1866)
Species Poecillastra sollasi (Topsent, 1890) accepted as Characella pachastrelloides (Carter, 1876)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132016
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2005-12-05 19:30:18Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2010-02-13 15:01:31Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2012-04-27 21:46:12Z  changed  Boury-Esnault, Nicole
  
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  Citation: Boury-Esnault, N.; van Soest, R. (2013). Poecillastra Sollas, 1888. 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=132016 on 2013-06-19
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