WoRMS taxon details
Keratosa
AphiaID: 366651
AphiaID: 366651
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) |
| Authority | Grant, 1861 | ||||||||||||||||
| Status | temporary name | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Subclass | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Demospongiae | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Grant, R.E. 1861. Tabular view of the primary divisions of the Animal Kingdom, intended to serve as an outline of an elementary course of recent Zoology, etc. (London): i-vi, 1-91. [details] status source: Erpenbeck, D.; Sutcliffe, P.; De Cook, S.C.; Dietzel, A.; Maldonado, M.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Wörheide, G. 2012. Horny sponges and their affairs: On the phylogenetic relationships of keratose sponges. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63: 809-816. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
The order Keratosa was used prior to Lévi's (1955) rearrangement of the Demosponge orders to accomodate sponges lacking spicules and provided with spongin fibers. This is now considered an artificial group because the orders Verongida, Dendroceratida and family Halisarcidae were included in the concept of Keratose sponges. From multidisplinary studies involving biology, chemistry, microbiology and genetics it is demonstrated that Verongida and Halisarcidae are unrelated to Dictyoceratida and Dendroceratida. Recent molecular studies favour the use of the name Keratosa for a subclass consisting of the orders Dendroceratida and Dictyoceratida only (Erpenbeck et al. 2012). Until a subclass classification of the Demospongiae is consistently and comprehensively established we will refrain from reintroducing an accepted name Keratosa, but list it here as a temporary name. [details] A 'temporary name' status is given to taxa above the family level that need further corroboration or further clarification. These names appear in the literature but are as yet not generally accepted or in use. Accepted status will follow as soon as independent studies with sufficient taxon content have appeared. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:366651 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Keratosa. 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=366651 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||||||||
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