Alectona Carter, 1879 
AphiaID: 132025

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Thoosidae (Family)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Genus
Typetaxon		Alectona millari Carter, 1879 (type by monotypy)
Parent		Thoosidae Cockerell, 1925
Synonymised taxa		Nisella Johnson, 1899 (preoccupied and junior synonym)
Sources		original description: Carter, H.J. 1879c. On a New Species of Excavating Sponge(Alectona Millari); and on a New Species of Rhaphidotheca (R. affinis).Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society 2: 493-499, plsXVII-XVIIa. [details] [full text] basis of record: Rützler, K. 2002. Family Alectonidae Rosell, 1996. Pp. 281-290. 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: Kelly, M. (2009). Demospongiae, Calcarea (Porifera). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Borchiellini,C., Alivon,E. & Vacelet, J. 2004. The systematic position of Alectona (Porifera, Demospongiae): a tetractinellid sponge.Boll. Mus. Ist. Biol. Univ. Genova, 68: 209-217 [details] additional source: Cárdenas P, Xavier JR, Reveillaud J, Schander C, Rapp HT (2011) Molecular Phylogeny of the Astrophorida (Porifera, Demospongiae) Reveals an Unexpected High Level of Spicule Homoplasy. PLoS ONE 6(4) , available online at http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0018318 [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] additional source: Alander, H. 1942. Sponges from the Swedish west-coast and adjacent waters. Ph.D. Thesis. (University of Lund, H. Struves: Gøteborg.)Pp. 1-95, 15 pls. [details] additional source: Vacelet, J. 1999b. Planktonic armoured propagules of the excavating sponge Alectona (Porifera: Demospongiae) are larvae: evidence from Alectona wallichii and A. mesatlantica sp. nov. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 627-642. [details] [full text] status source: Rosell, D.; Uriz, M.J. 1997. Phylogenetic Relationships within the Excavating Hadromerida (Porifera), with a Systematic Revision. Cladistics 13(4): 349-366. [details] from synonym: Johnson, J.Y. 1899. Notes on some Sponges belonging to the Clionidae obtained at Madeira. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society 1899:461-463, pl. VI. [details] [view taxon] [full text]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Species Alectona jamaicensis Pang, 1973 Species Alectona mesatlantica Vacelet, 1999 Species Alectona microspiculata Bavestrello, Calcinai, Cerrano & Sarà, 1998 Species Alectona millari Carter, 1879 Species Alectona primitiva Topsent, 1932 Species Alectona sarai Calcinai, Cerrano, Iwasaki & Bavestrello, 2008 Species Alectona sorrentini Bavestrello, Calcinai, Cerrano & Sarà, 1998 Species Alectona triradiata Lévi & Lévi, 1983 Species Alectona verticillata (Johnson, 1899) Species Alectona wallichii (Carter, 1874) Species Alectona higgini Carter, 1880 accepted as Delectona higgini (Carter, 1880)
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Links		To GenBank To ITIS
Images		[image from typetaxon] Alectona millari added on 2011-03-02 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Megan Best () qualitystatus: not checked [image from typetaxon] Alectona millari added on 2011-03-02 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Megan Best () qualitystatus: not checked
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132025
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van Soest, Rob 2005-07-26 12:02:34Z   changed   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2005-12-06 19:16:26Z   changed   van Soest, Rob 2006-10-06 14:20:30Z   changed   van Soest, Rob 2011-01-11 19:08:16Z   changed   van Soest, Rob 2011-04-09 13:38:14Z   changed   Boury-Esnault, Nicole
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		Citation: Boury-Esnault, N.; van Soest, R. (2013). Alectona Carter, 1879. 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=132025 on 2013-05-20