WoRMS taxon details
Amphilectus lobata (Montagu, 1818)
AphiaID: 157368
AphiaID: 157368
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Mycalina (Suborder) > Esperiopsidae (Family) > Amphilectus (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (Spelling variation) | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Amphilectus lobatus (Montagu, 1818) | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Amphilectus Vosmaer, 1880 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] source of synonymy: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Lorneville Harbour [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland To PESI | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: suspension feeding. Captures minute particles of food on their collars and ingesting them. [details] Habitat: benthic [details] Predators: generally for group, most predators (crabs and other invertebrates), find sponges distasteful either because of a presumably offensive odor or because of their spicules. Predators do include littorinid snails and nudibranchs. [details] Reproduction: Asexual reproduction by buds and gemmules and sexual reproduction (internally) by eggs and sperm; free-swimming cilated larvae (in general, most species are believed to be hermaphroditic but may not produce male and female gametes simultaneously). [details] Taxonomy: used to be called Mycale ovulum as per Linkletter, 1977 [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157368 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Amphilectus lobata (Montagu, 1818). 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=157368 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||||||||
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