Dragmacidon australe

Dragmacidon australe
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Demospongiae
Order:	Axinellida
Family:	Axinellidae
Genus:	Dragmacidon
Species:	D. australe
Binomial name
Dragmacidon australe (Bergquist, 1970)
Synonyms [1]
Pseudaxinella australis Bergquist, 1970

Dragmacidon australe is a species of sponge in the family, Axinellidae. ^[1]

It was first described in 1970 by Patricia Bergquist as Pseudaxinella australis ^{[1] [2]} It was appears to have been transferred to the genus, Dragmacidon , in 2002, by Belinda Alvarez and John Hooper (but the transfer may have occurred in 2000). ^{[1] [3] [4] [5]}

References

1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Dragmacidon australe (Bergquist, 1970)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
2. Bergquist, P.R. (1970). "The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 2 (Axinellida and Halichondrida)" (PDF). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir. 51: 9–85.
3. Alvarez, B. & Hooper, J.N.A. (2009). "Taxonomic revision of the order Halichondrida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from northern Australia. Family Axinellidae". The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory. 25: 27–28. doi: 10.5962/p.287446 . S2CID   4951580.
4. Alvarez, B.; Crisp, M.. D.; Driver, F.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2000). "Phylogenetic relationships of the family Axinellidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) using morphological and molecular data" . Zoologica Scripta. 29 (2): 169–198. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.2000.00029.x. ISSN   0300-3256. S2CID   84701079.
5. Alvarez, B. & Hooper, J.N.A. (2002). "Family Axinellidae.(724-747)". In Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (ed.). Systema Porifera. A guide to the supraspecific classification of the phylum Porifera. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

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