WoRMS taxon details
Acanthopolymastia Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1997
170617 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170617)
accepted
Genus
Atergia acanthoxa Koltun, 1964 accepted as Acanthopolymastia acanthoxa (Koltun, 1964) (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Kelly-Borges, M.; Bergquist, P.R. (1997). Revision of Southwest Pacific Polymastiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with descriptions of new species of <i>Polymastia</i> Bowerbank, <i>Tylexocladus</i> Topsent, and <i>Acanthopolymastia</i> gen. nov. from New Zealand and the Norfolk Ridge, New Caledonia. <em>Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research.</em> 31 (3): 367-402., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00288330.1997.9516772
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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. Acanthopolymastia Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1997. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=170617 on 2026-04-20
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Nomenclature
original description
Kelly-Borges, M.; Bergquist, P.R. (1997). Revision of Southwest Pacific Polymastiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with descriptions of new species of <i>Polymastia</i> Bowerbank, <i>Tylexocladus</i> Topsent, and <i>Acanthopolymastia</i> gen. nov. from New Zealand and the Norfolk Ridge, New Caledonia. <em>Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research.</em> 31 (3): 367-402., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00288330.1997.9516772
page(s): 396 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 396 [details] Available for editors
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taxonomy source
Santín, A.; Theising, F.; Despujols, D.; Brandt, A. (2026). A chance encounter: New <i>Spinularia</i> Gray, 1867 from abyssal depths of the Aleutian Trench (Bering Sea) leads to the proposal of new family, Spinulariidae fam nov. <em>Progress in Oceanography.</em> 103699., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2026.103699 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
