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Antho (Acarnia) Gray 1867

  • 1. McDaniel Marine Surveys, 3540 West 35 th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V 6 N 2 N 5.

Description

Subgenus Antho (Acarnia) Gray, 1867

The subgenus Antho (Acarnia) is defined as “ Antho with predominantly (acantho)tylostrongyles forming the renieroid skeleton, less often acanthostyles, and a special category of echinating acanthostyles overlap the main skeleton ” (Hooper 2002 [2004]b). There are 19 accepted species worldwide (de Voogd, et al. 2023) spread widely in several of the world’s oceans: Arctic, Bering, White, Barents and Kara seas, Northwest Pacific, Northeast Atlantic, Southeast Indian oceans and the Caribbean. Depth ranges are discontinuous from low tide to 1360 m.

Notes

Published as part of Ott, B., Mcdaniel, N. & Humphrey, E., 2024, Fourteen new species of demosponges (Porifera) from three coastal fjords in southern British Columbia, Canada, pp. 151-200 in Zootaxa 5463 (2) on page 175, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5463.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11610751

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gray
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Porifera
Order
Poecilosclerida
Family
Microcionidae
Genus
Antho
Taxon rank
subGenus
Taxonomic concept label
Antho (Acarnia) Gray, 1867 sec. Ott, Mcdaniel & Humphrey, 2024

References

  • Gray, J. E. (1867) Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1867 (2), 492 - 558, pls. XXVII - XXVIII.