WoRMS taxon details
Acanthoclada prostrata Bergquist, 1970
165969 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165969)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Bergquist, P.R. (1970). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 2 (Axinellida and Halichondrida). <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir.</em> 51: 9-85.
page(s): 22-23 [details]
page(s): 22-23 [details]
Holotype DM Por.27, geounit Northeastern New Zealand
Holotype DM Por.27, geounit Northeastern New Zealand [details]
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2026). World Porifera Database. Acanthoclada prostrata Bergquist, 1970. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=165969 on 2026-06-07
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Nomenclature
original description
Bergquist, P.R. (1970). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 2 (Axinellida and Halichondrida). <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir.</em> 51: 9-85.
page(s): 22-23 [details]
basis of record Hooper, J.N.A. (2002). Family Desmoxyidae Hallmann, 1916. pp. 755-772. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Volume 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_82 [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Hooper, J. N. A. (2002 [2004]). Family Desmoxyidae Hallmann, 1917. Pp. 755–772. <em>In: </em>Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). <em>Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges.</em> (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York. 1708+xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 22-23 [details]
basis of record Hooper, J.N.A. (2002). Family Desmoxyidae Hallmann, 1916. pp. 755-772. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Volume 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_82 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Hooper, J. N. A. (2002 [2004]). Family Desmoxyidae Hallmann, 1917. Pp. 755–772. <em>In: </em>Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). <em>Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges.</em> (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York. 1708+xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
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Kelly, M.; Edwards, A.R.; Wilkinson, M.R.; Alvarez, B.; Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R.; Buckeridge, St J.; Campbell, H.J.; Reiswig, H.M.; Valentine, C.; Vacelet, J. (2009). Phylum Porifera: sponges. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 23-46. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Morrow, C.; Cárdenas, P.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Picton, B.; McCormack, G.; Van Soest, R.; Collins, A.; Redmond, N.; Maggs, C.; Sigwart, J.; Allcock, L.A. (2019). Integrating morphological and molecular taxonomy with the revised concept of Stelligeridae (Porifera: Demospongiae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 187 (1): 31-81., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz017
page(s): 64 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Morrow, C.; Cárdenas, P.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Picton, B.; McCormack, G.; Van Soest, R.; Collins, A.; Redmond, N.; Maggs, C.; Sigwart, J.; Allcock, L.A. (2019). Integrating morphological and molecular taxonomy with the revised concept of Stelligeridae (Porifera: Demospongiae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 187 (1): 31-81., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz017
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype DM Por.27, geounit Northeastern New Zealand [details]
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Holotype NMNZ Por.27 (originally Dominion Museum Por. 27). The Systema Porifera chapter (p. 757) lists Takatu Point as the type locality, but Bergquist (1970) indicated nearby Kawau Island, North Channel, as the type locality. The status of the specimen collected at Takatu Point is uncertain, because other than stating that apart from the holotype from North Channel, Bergquist only named merely the second locality without describing or providing spicule measurements of the second specimen. Morrow et al. (2019) examined apparently the Takatu Point specimen (registered as NMNZ Por. 145). Technically this could probably mean that the type material in fact consists of a lectotype (Por. 27) and a paralectotype (Por. 145), but no author expressly stated this. [details]Reproduction "One specimen, collected 19.11.60, contains many roughly spherical eggs, 30-60 μ. long and 25-45 μ. wide with nucleii 9.0-20.0 μ.. These eggs, each in a distinct cavity bounded by a fine membrane, are distributed from the base of the sponge to the surface. No segmentation stages are present, indicating that this sponge is oviparous". [details]
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