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Acanthopolymastia Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1997 
AphiaID: 170617

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Polymastiidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Atergia acanthoxa Koltun, 1964 (type by original designation)
Parent Polymastiidae Gray, 1867
Source  original description: Kelly-Borges, M.; Bergquist, P.R. 1997. Revision of Southwest Pacific Polymastiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with descriptions of new species of Polymastia Bowerbank, TylexocladusTopsent, and Acanthopolymastia gen. nov. from New Zealand and the Norfolk Ridge, New Caledonia. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 31 (3): 367-402. [details]

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[show all]		 Species Acanthopolymastia acanthoxa (Koltun, 1964)
Species Acanthopolymastia bathamae Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1997
Species Acanthopolymastia pisiformis Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1997
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170617
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2010-02-22 19:19:49Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Acanthopolymastia Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1997. 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=170617 on 2013-05-20
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