CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Porifera (phylum) » Demospongiae (class) » Hadromerida (order) » Polymastiidae (family)

CAAB Code:	10 025901 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Acanthopolymastia spp.
Rank:	Genus

CAAB category:	10 - Porifera Sponges
Family:	10 25 Polymastiidae (sponges) - show full list
Common Name:	[a sponge]
Organism Type:	a sponge
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	10 025000 Polymastiidae
Child Codes:	10 025023 Acanthopolymastia acanthoxa 10 025039 Acanthopolymastia bathamae 10 025038 Acanthopolymastia pisiformis

Taxon Notes:

This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to this level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:

AFD	NZOR-6-99357 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

Record source:	Kelly-Borges, M., Bergquist, P.R., 1997. Revision of southwest Pacific Polymastiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with descriptions of new species of Polymastia Bowerbank, Tylexocladus Topsent, and Acanthopolymastia gen. nov. from New Zealand and the Norfolk Ridge, New Caledonia., New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, Vol. 31(3): 367-402.
Scientific Name verified against:	WoRMS, WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species. . Available from http: www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

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