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Ptilocaulis Carter, 1883 
AphiaID: 165605

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Halichondrida (Order) > Axinellidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Ptilocaulis gracilis Carter, 1883 (type by subsequent designation)
Parent Axinellidae Carter, 1875
Sources  original description: Carter, H.J. 1883b. Contributions to our Knowledge of the Spongida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 12 (71): 308-329, pls XI-XIV. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Alvarez, B.; Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Axinellidae Carter, 1875. Pp. 724-747. 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]

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 Species Ptilocaulis arbora (Sim, Kim & Byeon, 1990)
Species Ptilocaulis aulopora (Schmidt, 1870)
Species Ptilocaulis bistyla (Hechtel, 1983)
Species Ptilocaulis braziliensis (Hechtel, 1983)
Species Ptilocaulis digitatus Topsent, 1928
Species Ptilocaulis echidnaeus (Lamarck, 1814)
Species Ptilocaulis fosteri (Hechtel, 1983)
Species Ptilocaulis marquezii (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Species Ptilocaulis spiculifer (Lamarck, 1814)
Species Ptilocaulis trachys (de Laubenfels, 1954)
Species Ptilocaulis walpersii (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)

Species Ptilocaulis epakros Hooper & Lévi, 1993 accepted as Phycopsis epakros (Hooper & Levi, 1993)
Species Ptilocaulis flexibilis Lévi, 1961 accepted as Stylissa flexibilis (Lévi, 1961)
Species Ptilocaulis fusiformis Lévi, 1967 accepted as Phycopsis fusiformis (Lévi, 1967)
Species Ptilocaulis gracilis Carter, 1883 accepted as Ptilocaulis walpersii (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Species Ptilocaulis papillatus Hooper & Lévi, 1993 accepted as Phycopsis papillata (Hooper & Lévi, 1993)
Species Ptilocaulis rigidus Carter, 1883 accepted as Reniochalina rigida (Carter, 1883)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165605
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2007-08-15 17:28:33Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Ptilocaulis Carter, 1883. 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=165605 on 2013-05-22
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