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Hexactinella Carter, 1885 
AphiaID: 132110

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Hexactinellida (Class) > Hexasterophora (Subclass) > Hexactinosida (Order) > Sceptrulophora (Suborder) > Tretodictyidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Hexactinella ventilabrum Carter, 1885 (type by monotypy)
Parent Tretodictyidae Schulze, 1886
Sources  original description: Carter, H.J. 1885e. Report on a Collection of Marine Sponges from Japan, made by Dr. J. Anderson. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 15 (89): 387-406, pls XII-XIV. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Reiswig, H. 2002. Family Tretodictyidae Schulze, 1886. Pp. 1341-1354. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [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]

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 Species Hexactinella acanthacea Reiswig & Kelly, 2011
Species Hexactinella aurea Reiswig & Kelly, 2011
Species Hexactinella carolinensis Reiswig, Dohrmann, Pomponi & Wörheide, 2008
Species Hexactinella divergens Tabachnick, 1990
Species Hexactinella grimaldii Topsent, 1890
Species Hexactinella labyrinthica Wilson, 1904
Species Hexactinella lata (Schulze, 1886)
Species Hexactinella lingua Ijima, 1927
Species Hexactinella monticularis Lendenfeld, 1915
Species Hexactinella rugosa Ijima, 1927
Species Hexactinella simplex Reiswig & Kelly, 2011
Species Hexactinella spongiosa Ijima, 1927
Species Hexactinella ventilabrum Carter, 1885
Species Hexactinella vermiculosa Ijima, 1927

Species Hexactinella filholi Topsent, 1904 accepted as Auloplax filholi (Topsent, 1904)
Species Hexactinella minor Dendy & Burton, 1926 accepted as Tretodictyum minor (Dendy & Burton, 1926)
Species Hexactinella tubulosa (Schulze, 1886) accepted as Tretodictyum tubulosum Schulze, 1886
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132110
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2008-10-17 08:32:13Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Hexactinella Carter, 1885. 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: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=132110 on 2013-05-20
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