Hamacantha

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Merliida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Phylum: Porifera Classis: Demospongiae Subclassis: Heteroscleromorpha Ordo: Merliida

Familia: Hamacanthidae
Genus: Hamacantha
Subgenera (3): H. (Hamacantha) – H. (Vomerula) – H. (Zygherpe)
Species (25 + †1): H. acerata – H. agassizi – H. atoxa – H. azorica – H. boomerang – H. bowerbanki – H. carteri – H. cassanoi – H. desmacelloides – H. esperioides – H. falcula – H. forcipulata – †H. huttoni – H. hyaloderma – H. integra – H. johnsotni – H. lundbecki – H. megancistra – H. microxifera – H. mindanaensis – H. papillata – H. popana – H. schmidtii – H. simplex – H. tenda – H. tibicen

Name

Hamacantha Gray, 1867: 538

Type species: Halichondria johnstoni Bowerbank, 1864, by monotypy.

References

Primary 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. BHL

Additional references

Hajdu, E.; Castello-Branco, C. 2014: Hamacantha (Hamacantha) boomerang sp. nov. from deep-sea coral mounds at Campos Basin, SW Atlantic, and redescription of H. (H.) schmidtii (Carter, 1882) (Hamacanthidae, Poecilosclerida, Demospongiae). Zootaxa 3753(4): 384–390. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3753.4.7 Reference page.

Hajdu, E., Hooker, Y. & Willenz, P. 2015: New Hamacantha from Peru and resurrection of Zygherpe as subgenus (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida, Hamacanthidae). Zootaxa 3926(1): 87–99. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3926.1.3 Reference page.

Lehnert, H. & Stone, R.P. 2016. A comprehensive inventory of the Gulf of Alaska sponge fauna with the description of two new species and geographic range extensions. Zootaxa 4144(3): 365–382. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4144.3.5 . Reference page.

Links

Hamacantha in the World Register of Marine Species

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