Choristida 
AphiaID: 163009

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class)

Authority		Sollas, 1885
Status		unaccepted (disused)
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name		Astrophorida
Rank		Order
Parent		Demospongiae
Source		original description: Sollas, W.J. 1885b. A Classification of the Sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 16(95): 395. [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent + fossil
Links		To GenBank To ITIS
Note		Choristida Sollas (1885) (previously as Choristidae Sollas, 1880) was erected to encompass the orders Spirophorida and Astrophorida and an assemblage he called Microsclerophora which included unrelated Homosclerophorida and Thrombus. Later on, the latter were excluded from Choristida, but the name was maintained despite considerable erosion of the earlier content, until Lévi proposed to subdivide the group into separate orders Spirophorida and Astrophorida. The use of Choristida nevertheless persisted in the Anglosaxon literature until it was rejected in the Systema Porifera. [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:163009
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2005-07-05 07:50:10Z   created   Braeckman, Ulrike 2006-02-01 12:40:43Z   changed   van Soest, Rob 2006-05-18 10:05:01Z   changed   van Soest, Rob 2009-11-20 14:36:03Z   changed   van Soest, Rob
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		Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Choristida. 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=163009 on 2013-05-25