Ancorina

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Astrophorina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Parazoa Phylum: Porifera Classis: Demospongiae Subclassis: Heteroscleromorpha Ordo: Tetractinellida Subordo: Astrophorina

Familia: Ancorinidae
Genus: Ancorina
Species (14): A. bellae – A. brevidens – A. buldira – A. cerebrum – A. corticata – A. diplococcus – A. geodides – A. globosa – A. multistella – A. nanosclera – A. radix – A. repens – A. robusta – A. stalagmoides

Name

Ancorina Schmidt, 1862: 51

Type species: Ancorina cerebrum Schmidt, 1862 by subsequent designation of de Laubenfels (1936: 167).

Synonyms

• Sanidastrella Topsent, 1892

References

Primary references

• Schmidt, O. 1862. Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig. i–viii + 1–88 pp., pls. I–VII. Full article (PDF). GoogleBooks Reference page. 
• Laubenfels, M.W. de. 1936. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30): 1–225, pls. 1–22. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Kelly, M. & Sim-Smith, C. 2012. A review of Ancorina, Stryphnus, and Ecionemia (Demospongiae, Astrophorida, Ancorinidae), with descriptions of new species from New Zealand waters. Zootaxa 3480: 1–47. Preview Reference page. 

Links

• Ancorina in the World Register of Marine Species