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Alectona millari Carter, 1879 
AphiaID: 134115

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Thoosidae (Family) > Alectona (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Alectona Carter, 1879
Parent Alectona Carter, 1879
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: Hooper, J.N.A. 2005. Porifera (sponges). Pp 174-177, 478-479. In Rohde, K. (ed.) ‘Marine Parasitology.' (CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne).
page(s): 175 [details]


additional source: Wesche, S.J.; Adlard, R.D.; Hooper, J.N.A. (1997). The first incidence of clionid sponges (Porifera) from the Sydney rock oyster Saccostrea commercialis (Iredale and Roughley, 1933). Aquaculture 157(1-2): 171-178 (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 173 [details]


additional source: Maldonado, M. (1992). Demosponges of the red coral bottoms from the Alboran Sea. J. Nat. Hist. 26: 1131-1161 (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]

context source (Deepsea): Census of Marine Life (2012). SYNDEEP: Towards a first global synthesis of biodiversity, biogeography and ecosystem function in the deep sea. Unpublished data (datasetID: 53), available online at http://dx.doi.org/10/06/SYNDEEP-Towards-a-first-global-synthesis-of-biodiversity-biogeography-and-ecosystem-function-in-the-deep-sea-Eva-Ramirez-Llodra-et-al..pdf [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution type locality: Celtic Seas [details]
Aegean Sea [details]
Alboran Sea [details]
Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (not certain[details]
Azores [details]
Azores Canaries Madeira [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Levantine Sea [details]
North Sea [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
Notes  Holotype: BMNH 1882.4.27.4 [details]

Type locality: Type locality: N of Scotland [details]
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Alectona millari
Alectona millari
added on 2011-03-02 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Megan Best ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Alectona millari
Alectona millari
added on 2011-03-02 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Megan Best ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134115
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2006-10-06 14:20:30Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Alectona millari 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=134115 on 2013-06-19
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