Rhabdastrella

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Rhabdastrella
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Rhabdastrella globostellata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Tetractinellida
Family: Ancorinidae
Genus:Rhabdastrella
Thiele, 1903 [1] [2]
Species

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Synonyms

Rhabdastrella is a genus of marine sponges belonging to the family of Ancorinidae. [2]

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Sponge Animals of the phylum Porifera

Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera, are a basal Metazoa (animal) clade as a sister of the Diploblasts. They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through them, consisting of jelly-like mesohyl sandwiched between two thin layers of cells. The branch of zoology that studies sponges is known as spongiology.

Ancorinidae A family of marine sponges in the order Tetractinellida

Ancorinidae is a family of marine sponges belonging to the order of Tetractinellida.

Species

<i>Rhabdastrella globostellata</i> species of sponge

Rhabdastrella globostellata, also known as the yellow pot sponge, is a marine sponge of the order Astrophorida. It is native to many regions of the Indian Ocean including the shores of Madagascar, the Seychelles, and Australia as well as the Malayan Peninsula and Singapore. It was first described by Henry J. Carter as Stelleta globostellata in 1883, named after the globostellate shape of its spicules.

Henry John Carter, FRS was a surgeon working in Bombay, India, who carried out work in geology and zoology. He worked as an army surgeon in Bombay from 1859 on Her Majesty's Indian Service, Bombay Establishment. He edited a collection of geological papers on Western India, including a summary of the geology of India, which was published in 1857. Many items of his published work appeared in the journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, and in the Annals of Natural History. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1859.

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References

  1. ↑ Thiele, Johannes (1903). "Kieselschwämme von Ternate. II". Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft . Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft. 25: 933–968, pl. XVIII.
  2. 1 2 3 4 van Soest, R. (2014). Van Soest RW, Boury-Esnault N, Hooper JN, Rützler K, de Voogd NJ, de Glasby BA, Hajdu E, Pisera AB, Manconi R, Schoenberg C, Janussen D, Tabachnick KR, Klautau M, Picton B, Kelly M, Vacelet J (eds.). "Rhabdastrella Thiele, 1903". World Porifera database. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 2014-05-22.
  3. ↑ Carter, Henry John (May 1883). "Contributions to our Knowledge of the Spongida.—Pachytragida". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 5. Taylor & Francis. 11 (65): 344–369.


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