WoRMS taxon details
Axinella carteri (Dendy, 1889)
AphiaID: 220455
AphiaID: 220455
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Halichondrida (Order) > Axinellidae (Family) > Axinella (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (genus transfer) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Stylissa carteri (Dendy, 1889) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Axinella Schmidt, 1862 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Dendy, A. 1889. Report on a Second Collection of Sponges from the Gulf of Manaar. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 3: 73-99,pls III-V. [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: Barnes D.K.A.; Bell, J.J. (2002) Coastal sponge communities of the West Indian Ocean: taxonomic affinities, richness and diversity. Afr. J. Ecol. 40: 337-349 [details] additional source: Thomas, P.A. 1981. A second collection of marine Demospongiae from Mahe Island in the Seychelles Bank (Indian Ocean). Annalen. Reeks in 8 - Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: zoologische wetenschappen, 233. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: Tervuren, Belgium. 54 plates pp. [details] [full text] additional source: Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Anakao [details] Indian Ocean [details] Mahe Island [details] Malindi [details] Quirimba Archipelago [details] Red Sea [details] Zanzibar [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Erect expanded leaves up to 10 mm thick, 40 cm high. Short woody stalk with fleshy, blade-like lobes. Surface corrugated longitudinally, crinkly, softly spiky, and ridged. Colour dull orange brown to pink. Habitat: sandy fringing reefs, lagoons. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. Similar to Clathria frondifera (Richmond, 1997). [details] Specimen: Reg. No 1600 [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220455 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Axinella carteri (Dendy, 1889). 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=220455 on 2013-05-18 | ||||||||||||||
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