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Acanthella acuta Schmidt, 1862 
AphiaID: 132455

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Halichondrida (Order) > Dictyonellidae (Family) > Acanthella (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Acanthella Schmidt, 1862
Parent Acanthella Schmidt, 1862
Sources  original description: Schmidt, O. 1862. Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Erpenbeck, D.; Alvarez De Glasby, B. 2002. Family Dictyonellidae Van Soest, Diaz & Pomponi, 1990. Pp. 773-786. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details]

additional source: Cruz, T. 2002. Esponjas marinas de Canarias. Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias, S/C Tenerife. 260 pp. [details]

additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1993a. Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 159: 205-219. [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]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
French eponge épineuse orange  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Adriatic Sea [details]
Aegean Sea [details]
Azores Canaries Madeira [details]
Canary Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Cape Verde [details]
Croatia [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Levantine Sea [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Monaco [details]
North Atlantic [details]
West Africa [details]
West Mediterranean [details]
Western Mediterranean [details]
Specimen  Holotype: BMNH 1867.7.26.66, locality Adriatic Sea (Sebenico) [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
Images 
Acanthella acuta
Acanthella acuta
added on 2008-09-26 - author: Picton, Bernard
qualitystatus: checked by Picton, Bernard on 2008-09-26 16:45:40

Acanthella acuta Schmidt
Acanthella acuta Schmidt
added on 2011-03-27 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2011-03-27 16:44:04

Acanthella acuta ZMA Por. 14589
Acanthella acuta ZMA Por. 14589
added on 2011-03-27 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2011-03-27 16:49:17
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132455
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2005-07-26 11:25:22Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-08-17 17:34:12Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Acanthella acuta Schmidt, 1862. 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=132455 on 2013-05-21
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