Deep-Sea taxon details
Malacosaccus unguiculatus arcticus Burton, 1928
1568512 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1568512)
accepted
Subspecies
Malacosaccus unguiculatus var. arctica Burton, 1928 · alternative representation
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Malacosaccus unguiculatus var. arctica Burton, 1928) Burton, M. (1928). Hexactinellida. <em>Danish Ingolf Expedition.</em> 6 (4): 1-18. [details] 
Nomenclature The subspecies name must agree in gender with the genus name, so the original name arctica was corrected to arcticus.
Nomenclature The subspecies name must agree in gender with the genus name, so the original name arctica was corrected to arcticus. [details]
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. Malacosaccus unguiculatus arcticus Burton, 1928. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1568512 on 2026-04-02
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Malacosaccus unguiculatus arcticus Burton, 1928. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1568512 on 2026-04-02
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(of Malacosaccus unguiculatus var. arctica Burton, 1928) Burton, M. (1928). Hexactinellida. <em>Danish Ingolf Expedition.</em> 6 (4): 1-18. [details]
status source Tabachnick, K.R. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Porifera. <em>Invertebrate Zoology.</em> 11 (1): 231–239., available online at https://doi.org/10.15298/invertzool.11.1.21 [details] Available for editors
status source Tabachnick, K.R. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Porifera. <em>Invertebrate Zoology.</em> 11 (1): 231–239., available online at https://doi.org/10.15298/invertzool.11.1.21 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature The subspecies name must agree in gender with the genus name, so the original name arctica was corrected to arcticus. [details]
