Agelas Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 
AphiaID: 131771

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Agelasida (Order) > Agelasidae (Family)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Genus
Typetaxon		Agelas dispar Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (type by subsequent designation)
Parent		Agelasidae Verrill, 1907
Synonymised taxa		Chalinopsis Schmidt, 1870 (junior synonym) Ectyon Gray, 1867 (junior synonym) Oroidea Gray, 1867 (junior synonym) Pachychalinopsis Schmidt, 1880 (nomen nudum) Siphonochalinopsis Schmidt, 1880 (nomen nudum)
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. 2002. Family Agelasidae Verrill, 1907. Pp. 819-823. 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] [full text] 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: Schmidt, O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Gray, J.E. 1867a. Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Schmidt, O. 1880b. Die Spongien des Meerbusen von Mexico (Und des caraibischen Meeres). Heft II. Abtheilung II. Hexactinelliden. Abtheilung III. Tetractinelliden. Monactinelliden und Anhang. Nachträge zu Abtheilung I (Lithistiden). Pp. 33-90, pls V-X. In: Reports on the dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, by the USCSS ‘Blake’. (Gustav Fischer:Jena). [details] [view taxon] [full text]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Species Agelas axifera Hentschel, 1911 Species Agelas bispiculata Vacelet, Vasseur & Lévi, 1976 Species Agelas braekmani Thomas, 1998 Species Agelas cavernosa Thiele, 1903 Species Agelas cerebrum Assmann, van Soest & Köck, 2001 Species Agelas cervicornis (Schmidt, 1870) Species Agelas ceylonica Dendy, 1905 Species Agelas citrina Gotera & Alcolado, 1987 Species Agelas clathrodes (Schmidt, 1870) Species Agelas conifera (Schmidt, 1870) Species Agelas dendromorpha Lévi, 1993 Species Agelas dilatata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 Species Agelas dispar Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 Species Agelas flabelliformis (Carter, 1883) Species Agelas gracilis Whitelegge, 1897 Species Agelas inaequalis Pulitzer-Finali, 1986 Species Agelas linnaei De Voogd, Parra-Velandia & Van Soest, 2008 Species Agelas marmarica Lévi, 1958 Species Agelas mauritiana (Carter, 1883) Species Agelas nakamurai Hoshino, 1985 Species Agelas nemoechinata Hoshino, 1985 Species Agelas novaecaledoniae Lévi & Lévi, 1983 Species Agelas oroides (Schmidt, 1864) Species Agelas repens Lehnert & van Soest, 1998 Species Agelas robusta Pulitzer-Finali, 1982 Species Agelas rudis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 Species Agelas sceptrum (Lamarck, 1815) Species Agelas schmidti Wilson, 1902 Species Agelas semiglaber Pulitzer-Finali, 1996 Species Agelas sventres Lehnert & van Soest, 1996 Species Agelas tubulata Lehnert & van Soest, 1996 Species Agelas wiedenmayeri Alcolado, 1984 Species Agelas carpenteri (Gray, 1867) (species inquirenda) Species Agelas fascicularis (Gray, 1867) (species inquirenda) Species Agelas adriatica (Gray, 1867) accepted as Agelas oroides (Schmidt, 1864) Species Agelas albolutea Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 accepted as Cribrochalina vasculum (Lamarck, 1814) Species Agelas arborescens (Lamarck, 1815) accepted as Agelas sceptrum (Lamarck, 1815) Species Agelas clavaeformis (Carter, 1883) accepted as Agelas dispar Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 Species Agelas cylindrica (Carter, 1883) accepted as Agelas sceptrum (Lamarck, 1815) Species Agelas longissima Pulitzer-Finali, 1986 accepted as Agelas sceptrum (Lamarck, 1815) Species Agelas sparsus (Gray, 1867) accepted as Agelas dispar Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent + fossil
Distribution		Bamburi [details] Bermuda [details] Kenya [details] Mombasa [details] North Kenya Banks [details] Shelly Beach (Mombasa) [details] Shimoni [details] Virgin Islands [details] Wasini Channel [details]
Feedingtype		filter feeder [details]
Host of		Hemicyclops perinsignis Humes, 1973 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links		To GenBank To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 2272) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 2272) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 2272) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 2338) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 2338) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 2480) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 2480) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 2493) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 2704) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 2704) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 2704) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 2704) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 2704) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 2858) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 2858) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 2921) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 3267) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 3308) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 3398) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 4296) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 4296) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 4296) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 4296) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 66) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 66) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 66) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas sp. 66) To ITIS
Notes		A verticillated acanthostyle assumed to belong to this genus was found in an Eocene age drilling core south of Bermuda. [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
Images		Agelas spicule added on 2011-12-25 - author: van Soest, Rob qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2011-12-25 16:36:32 Agelas dispar Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 added on 2011-12-25 - author: van Soest, Rob qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2011-12-25 16:48:18 [image from typetaxon] Agelas dispar Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 Holotype added on 2011-12-25 - author: van Soest, Rob qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2011-12-25 17:04:57 Agelas fibre added on 2012-02-08 - author: van Soest, Rob qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2012-07-20 20:55:57
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131771
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van Soest, Rob 2007-09-19 16:57:43Z   changed   van Soest, Rob 2009-02-09 13:10:41Z   changed   van Soest, Rob
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		Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Agelas 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: 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 at http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=131771 on 2013-05-23