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Acamas Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 
AphiaID: 184560

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Mycalina (Suborder) > Mycalidae (Family)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (preoccupied and genus transfer)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Mycale (Arenochalina) Lendenfeld, 1887
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Acamas laxissima Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (type by subsequent designation)
Parent Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905
Sources  original description: Duchassaing De Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. 2002. Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. 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]

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Species Acamas laxissima Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 accepted as Mycale (Arenochalina) laxissima (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Species Acamas violacea Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 accepted as Hyrtios violaceus (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Note  Preoccupied by Acamas de Montfort, 1808 (Mollusca). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:184560
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-12-12 17:12:35Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-02-08 09:07:24Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Acamas Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864. 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=184560 on 2013-05-25
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