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Acanthella erecta (Carter, 1876) 
AphiaID: 165656

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Halichondrida (Order) > Dictyonellidae (Family) > Acanthella (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Acanthella Schmidt, 1862
Synonymised
taxa		  Bubaris erecta (Carter, 1876) (genus transfer)
 Bubaris vermiculata var. erecta (Carter, 1876) (genus transfer and status change)
 Hymeraphia vermiculata var. erecta Carter, 1876 (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Carter, H.J. 1876. Descriptions and Figures of Deep-Sea Sponges and their Spicules, from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S.‘Porcupine’, chiefly in 1869 (concluded). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 18(105): 226-240; (106): 307-324; (107): 388-410;(108): 458-479, pls XII-XVI. [details] [full text]

from synonym: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-306-47260-0. xix, 1-1101, 1103-1706 (2 volumes) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Alvarez, B.; Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Bubaridae Topsent, 1894. Pp. 748-754. 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Celtic Seas [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
West Coast of Scotland (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Specimen  Syntype (from synonym): BMNH 1982.7.28.30 and 34, locality Celtic Seas (United Kingdom, W of Shetland, Porcupine st. 82) [view taxon]
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Image 
Acanthella erecta ZMA Por. 20148
Acanthella erecta ZMA Por. 20148
added on 2011-03-27 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2011-03-27 20:02:16
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165656
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2007-08-16 09:02:06Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Acanthella erecta (Carter, 1876). 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=165656 on 2013-05-21
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