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Alectonidae Rosell, 1996 
AphiaID: 170388

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (junior synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Thoosidae Cockerell, 1925
Rank Family
Parent Astrophorida
Sources  original description: Rosell, D. 1996b. Systematics, biology and ecology of mediterranean excavating sponges. Ph.D. Thesis. (University of Barcelona, Spain). Pp. 1-363. [details]

original description: Rosell, D.; Uriz, M.J. 1997. Phylogenetic Relationships within the Excavating Hadromerida (Porifera), with a Systematic Revision. Cladistics 13(4): 349-366. [details]

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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To GenBank
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170388
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2005-12-06 19:16:26Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2011-04-12 15:29:35Z  changed  Boury-Esnault, Nicole
2012-07-12 06:58:53Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2013). Alectonidae. 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=170388 on 2013-05-25
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