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Aciculites Schmidt, 1879 
AphiaID: 171173

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > 'Lithistida' (Order) > Scleritodermidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Aciculites higginsii Schmidt, 1879 (type by monotypy)
Parent Scleritodermidae Sollas, 1888
Synonymised
taxa
  Sympyla Sollas, 1888 (junior synonym)
Sources  original description: Schmidt, O. 1879. Die Spongien des Meerbusen von Mexico (Und des caraibischen Meeres). Abtheilung I. Heft I. Pp. 1-32, pls I-IV. In:Reports on the dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, by the USCSS ‘Blake’. (Gustav Fischer: Jena). [details] [full text]

basis of record: Pisera, A.; Lévi, C. 2002. Family Scleritodermidae Sollas, 1888. Pp. 302-311. 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]

additional source: Kelly, M. (2009). Demospongiae, Calcarea (Porifera). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: 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]

from synonym: Sollas, W.J. 1888. Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, 1873-1876. Zoology 25(63): 1-458, pls I-XLIV, 1 map. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

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 Species Aciculites ciliata Wilson, 1925
Species Aciculites cribrophora (Schmidt, 1880)
Species Aciculites higginsii Schmidt, 1879
Species Aciculites manawatawhi Kelly, 2007
Species Aciculites mediterranea Manconi, Serusi & Pisera, 2006
Species Aciculites orientalis Dendy, 1905
Species Aciculites oxytylota Lévi & Lévi, 1983
Species Aciculites papillata Lévi & Lévi, 1983
Species Aciculites pulchra Dendy, 1924
Species Aciculites spinosa Vacelet & Vasseur, 1971
Species Aciculites sulcus Kelly, 2007
Species Aciculites tulearensis Vacelet & Vasseur, 1965

Species Aciculites geminum (Schmidt, 1879) accepted as Siphonidium geminum (Schmidt, 1879)
Species Aciculites incrustans Topsent, 1889 accepted as Desmanthus incrustans (Topsent, 1889)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:171173
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2006-12-06 20:21:40Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Aciculites Schmidt, 1879. 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=171173 on 2013-05-23
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