Acanthella dendyi
| Acanthella dendyi | |
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| Specimen from the collections of Auckland War Memorial Museum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Demospongiae |
| Order: | Bubarida |
| Family: | Dictyonellidae |
| Genus: | Acanthella |
| Species: | A. dendyi
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| Binomial name | |
| Acanthella dendyi | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Phakellia dendyi Bergquist, 1970 | |
Holotype sites[2]
Acanthella dendyi is a marine sessile filter-feeder[2] sponge in the family Dictyonellidae, first described by Patricia Bergquist in 1970 as Phakellia dendyi[1][3]
Distribution
[edit]In Australian waters it is found from Victorian coastal water, all the way up the east coast to Queensland and then all the way across the northern coasts to the north-west coast of Western Australia, at depths from 8–180 m.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "WoRMS – World Register of Marine Species – Acanthella dendyi (Bergquist, 1970)". Marinespecies.org. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
- ^ a b c "Australian Faunal Directory: Phakellia dendyi Bergquist, 1970". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- ^ Bergquist, P.R. (1970). "The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 2 (Axinellida and Halichondrida). (Mem. N.Z. Oceanogr. Inst. 51)" (PDF). Bulletin of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. 197: 17.
External links
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