CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Porifera (phylum) » Demospongiae (class) » Astrophorida (order) » Ancorinidae (family)

CAAB Code:	10 009008 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Ancorina robusta (Carter, 1883)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	10 - Porifera Sponges
Family:	10 9 Ancorinidae (sponges) - show full list
Common Name:	[a sponge]
Organism Type:	a sponge
Synonyms:	Ecionemia robusta
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	10 009902 Ancorina spp.

Taxon Notes:

Recent molecular work has shown that this taxon falls into a group of Geodia species lacking sterrasters, but it has yet to be formally reassigned.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.name:5e2e8101-b4dc-43c8-934e-4403ec768737 Name status: synonym Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:558629 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Record source:	Hooper, J.N.A. Wiedenmayer, F., 1994, Zoological catalogue of Australia. Volume 12. Porifera. CSIRO, Melbourne
Scientific Name verified against:	Van Soest, R.W.M., Hooper, J.N.A., Butler, P.J., 2020. Every sponge its own name: removing Porifera homonyms., Zootaxa, Vol. 4745(1): 1-93. . doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4745.1.1 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4745.1.1

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