WoRMS taxon details
Alectona Carter, 1879
AphiaID: 132025
AphiaID: 132025
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Thoosidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Alectona millari Carter, 1879 (type by monotypy) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Thoosidae Cockerell, 1925 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Nisella Johnson, 1899 (preoccupied and junior synonym) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Carter, H.J. 1879c. On a New Species of Excavating Sponge(Alectona Millari); and on a New Species of Rhaphidotheca (R. affinis).Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society 2: 493-499, plsXVII-XVIIa. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Rützler, K. 2002. Family Alectonidae Rosell, 1996. Pp. 281-290. 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: Kelly, M. (2009). Demospongiae, Calcarea (Porifera). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Borchiellini,C., Alivon,E. & Vacelet, J. 2004. The systematic position of Alectona (Porifera, Demospongiae): a tetractinellid sponge.Boll. Mus. Ist. Biol. Univ. Genova, 68: 209-217 [details] additional source: 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] 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: Alander, H. 1942. Sponges from the Swedish west-coast and adjacent waters. Ph.D. Thesis. (University of Lund, H. Struves: Gøteborg.)Pp. 1-95, 15 pls. [details] additional source: Vacelet, J. 1999b. Planktonic armoured propagules of the excavating sponge Alectona (Porifera: Demospongiae) are larvae: evidence from Alectona wallichii and A. mesatlantica sp. nov. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 627-642. [details] [full text] status source: Rosell, D.; Uriz, M.J. 1997. Phylogenetic Relationships within the Excavating Hadromerida (Porifera), with a Systematic Revision. Cladistics 13(4): 349-366. [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] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| All child taxa [hide all] | Species Alectona jamaicensis Pang, 1973 Species Alectona mesatlantica Vacelet, 1999 Species Alectona microspiculata Bavestrello, Calcinai, Cerrano & Sarà, 1998 Species Alectona millari Carter, 1879 Species Alectona primitiva Topsent, 1932 Species Alectona sarai Calcinai, Cerrano, Iwasaki & Bavestrello, 2008 Species Alectona sorrentini Bavestrello, Calcinai, Cerrano & Sarà, 1998 Species Alectona triradiata Lévi & Lévi, 1983 Species Alectona verticillata (Johnson, 1899) Species Alectona wallichii (Carter, 1874) Species Alectona higgini Carter, 1880 accepted as Delectona higgini (Carter, 1880) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Boury-Esnault, N.; van Soest, R. (2013). Alectona Carter, 1879. 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=132025 on 2013-05-26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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