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Acanthacarnus Lévi, 1952 
AphiaID: 178311

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Microcionina (Suborder) > Acarnidae (Family)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (junior synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Acarnus Gray, 1867
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Acanthacarnus souriei Levi, 1952 (type by monotypy)
Parent Acarnidae Dendy, 1922
Sources  original description: Lévi, C. 1952. Spongiaires de la côte du Sénégal. Bulletin de l’Institut français d’Afrique noire (A. Sciences naturelles) 14(1): 34-59. [details] [full text]

original description: 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]

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Species Acanthacarnus radovani Boury-Esnault, 1973 accepted as Acarnus radovani (Boury-Esnault, 1973)
Species Acanthacarnus souriei Levi, 1952 accepted as Acarnus souriei (Lévi, 1952)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178311
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-08-02 09:02:58Z  created  Aracina, Claudia
2005-09-03 08:52:49Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-02-03 14:22:56Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2007-01-04 18:47:30Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Acanthacarnus Lévi, 1952. 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=178311 on 2013-05-21
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