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Acanthoxifer ceylonensis Dendy, 1905 
AphiaID: 189856

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Halichondrida (Order) > Heteroxyidae (Family) > Acanthoxifer (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (genus transfer)
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Accepted name  Myrmekioderma granulatum (Esper, 1794)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Acanthoxifer Dendy, 1905
Parent Acanthoxifer Dendy, 1905 accepted as Myrmekioderma Ehlers, 1870
Sources  original description: Dendy, A. 1905. Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman,at Ceylon, in 1902. Pp. 57-246, pls I-XVI. In: Herdman, W.A. (Ed.), Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. 3(Supplement 18). (Royal Society: London). [details] [full text]

additional source: Burton, M. 1930d. Additions to the Sponge Fauna of the Gulf of Manaar. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10) 5 (30): 665-676. [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Sri Lankan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Notes  Holotype: BMNH 1907.2.1.54-55 [details]

Type locality: India [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:189856
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Date   action   by
2005-12-18 15:00:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-02-02 18:34:03Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2007-08-21 14:09:35Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Acanthoxifer ceylonensis Dendy, 1905. 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=189856 on 2013-05-23
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