WoRMS taxon details
Megaciella Hallmann, 1920
AphiaID: 167430
AphiaID: 167430
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Microcionina (Suborder) > Acarnidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Amphilectus pilosus Ridley & Dendy, 1886 (type by original designation) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Acarnidae Dendy, 1922 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Myxichela de Laubenfels, 1936 (junior synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Hallmann, E.F. 1920. New Genera of Monaxonid Sponges related to the Genus Clathria. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New SouthWales 44(4): 767-792, pls XXXVI-XL. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Acarnidae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 412-431. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details] additional source: Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 41: 47-114 (look up in IMIS) [details] original description (from synonym): Laubenfels, M.W. De 1936a. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Carnegie Institute of Washington (Tortugas Laboratory Paper N° 467) 30: 1-225, pls 1-22. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Megaciella anisochela Lehnert, Stone & Heimler, 2006 Species Megaciella annectens (Ridley & Dendy, 1886) Species Megaciella fragilis (Koltun, 1955) Species Megaciella incrustans van Soest, 2009 Species Megaciella microtoxa (Dickinson, 1945) Species Megaciella ochotensis (Koltun, 1959) Species Megaciella pilosa (Ridley & Dendy, 1886) Species Megaciella spirinae (Koltun, 1958) Species Megaciella tawiensis (Wilson, 1925) Species Megaciella tibiellifera (Ridley, 1884) Species Megaciella topsenti (Burton, 1932) Species Megaciella zenkevitchi (Koltun, 1958) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:167430 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Megaciella Hallmann, 1920. 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=167430 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||||||||
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