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Acanthella dendyi

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Acanthella dendyi
Specimen from the collections of Auckland War Memorial Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Bubarida
Family: Dictyonellidae
Genus: Acanthella
Species:
A. dendyi
Binomial name
Acanthella dendyi
(Bergquist, 1970)[1]
Synonyms[1]

Phakellia dendyi Bergquist, 1970

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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

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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

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  1. ^ a b c "WoRMS – World Register of Marine Species – Acanthella dendyi (Bergquist, 1970)". Marinespecies.org. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Australian Faunal Directory: Phakellia dendyi Bergquist, 1970". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  3. ^ 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.
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