Acanthella vaceleti van Soest & Stentoft, 1988 
AphiaID: 165669

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Halichondrida (Order) > Dictyonellidae (Family) > Acanthella (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Acanthella Schmidt, 1862
Sources		original description: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stentoft, N. 1988. Barbados Deep-Water Sponges. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 122. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao andother Caribbean Islands, 70(215): 1-175. [details] [full text] basis of record: Alvarez, B.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Rützler, K. 1998. A Revision of Axinellidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) in the Central West Atlantic Region. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 598: 1-47. [details] [full text] additional source: Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Distribution		Barbados [details] Barbados Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Eastern Caribbean [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Northern Gulf of Mexico [details]
Specimen		Holotype: ZMA Por. 05418, locality Eastern Caribbean (Barbados, off Paynes Bay, dredged) [details]
Links		To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165669
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2005-07-10 18:05:41Z   created   db_admin 2007-08-18 17:45:06Z   changed   van Soest, Rob
		[Taxonomic tree] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images]
		Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Acanthella vaceleti van Soest & Stentoft, 1988. 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=165669 on 2013-05-25