WoRMS taxon details
Aka siphona (de Laubenfels, 1949)
AphiaID: 166923
AphiaID: 166923
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Petrosina (Suborder) > Phloeodictyidae (Family) > Aka (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (Junior synonymy with insect genus Aka White, 1879. Reverting to next available name.) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Siphonodictyon siphonum (de Laubenfels, 1949) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Aka de Laubenfels, 1936 accepted as Siphonodictyon Bergquist, 1965 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Siphonochalina siphona de Laubenfels, 1949 (genus transfer) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1949b. Sponges of the western Bahamas. American Museum Novitates (1431): 1-25. [details] [full text]
additional source: Pulitzer-Finali, G. 1986. A collection of West Indian Demospongiae (Porifera). In appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the West Indies. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria 86: 65-216. [details] additional source: Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Bahamas (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Bahamian (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Belize [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cuba [details] Greater Antilles [details] Jamaica [details] Northern Gulf of Mexico [details] Southern Caribbean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Specimens |
Holotype (from synonym): AMNH 468, locality Bahamian (Bahamas, Bimini, Lerner Laboratory, eelgrass field east of laboratory) [view taxon]
Paratype (from synonym): AMNH 483, locality Bahamian (Bahamas, Bimini, Lerner Laboratory, eelgrass field east of laboratory) [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To The Sponge Guide | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:166923 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Schönberg, C.; van Soest, R. (2013). Aka siphona (de Laubenfels, 1949). 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=166923 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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