Acarnus tortilis Topsent, 1892 
AphiaID: 132956

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Microcionina (Suborder) > Acarnidae (Family) > Acarnus (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Acarnus Gray, 1867
Synonymised taxa		Acarnus polytylus Pulitzer-Finali, 1983 (junior synonym)
Sources		original description: Topsent, E. 1892b. Diagnoses d’éponges nouvelles de la Méditerranée et plus particulièrement de Banyuls. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale (2) 10 (Notes et Revue 6) xvii-xxviii. [details] [full text] basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Hiemstra, F. (1991). Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the marine sponge genus Acarnus (Porifera: Poecilosclerida). Beaufortia 42(3): 49-88 (look up in IMIS) [details] [full text] additional source: Mustapha, K.B.,Zarrouk, S., Souissi, A., ; El Abed, A. 2003.Diversite Des Desmosponges Tunisiennes.Bull.Inst. Natn. Scien. Tech. Mer de Salammbô. Vol. 30 [details] additional source: Topsent, E. 1897a. Spongiaires de la Baie d’Amboine. (Voyage de MM. M. Bedot et C. Pictet dans l’Archipel Malais). Revue suisse de Zoologie 4: 421-487, pls 18-21. [details] [full text] additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1993a. Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 159: 205-219. [details] 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: Pansini, M. 1987a. Littoral demosponges from the banks of the Strait of Sicily and the Alboran Sea. Pp. 149-185. In: Vacelet, J. & Boury-Esnault, N. (Eds), Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. NATO ASI Series G 13. (Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg): 1-332. (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Pulitzer-Finali, G. 1983. A collection of Mediterranean Demospongiae (Porifera) with, in appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the Mediterranean Sea. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria 84: 445-621. [details] [view taxon]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Aegean Sea [details] Azores [details] Azores Canaries Madeira [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Banda Sea (not valid) [details] Cape Verde [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] French Exclusive Economic Zone [Mediterranean part] [details] Graham Bank [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Ionian Sea [details] Italian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North Atlantic [details] South European Atlantic Shelf [details] Tunisian Plateau/Gulf of Sidra [details] West Africa [details] Western Mediterranean [details]
Specimen		Holotype: MNHN DT 271, locality Banyuls [details]
Links		To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI
Note		Records of this species by Topsent, 1897, redescribed by Desqueyroux, 1981 (Ambon, Indonesia), Dendy, 1916 (India), Vacelet et al. 1976 (Madagascar) and Hooper, 1986 (Australia) are attributable to A. bergquistae. [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132956
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van Soest, Rob 2005-07-26 11:25:22Z   changed   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2010-03-22 19:18:53Z   checked   van Soest, Rob
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		Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Acarnus tortilis Topsent, 1892. 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=132956 on 2013-05-21