Acanthella dendyi

Acanthella dendyi
Specimen from the collections of Auckland War Memorial Museum
Scientific 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

Holotype sites'"`UNIQ--ref-0000000A-QINU`"'

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

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

1. "WoRMS – World Register of Marine Species – Acanthella dendyi (Bergquist, 1970)". Marinespecies.org. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
2. "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.

External links

• Distribution in Australian coastal waters