IRMNG taxon details
basis of record
Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. [details]
basis of record
WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]
taxonomy source
West, R. R.; Vacelet, J.; Wood, R. A.; Willenz, P.; Hartman, W. D. (2013). Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 4A–B: Hypercalcified extant and fossil chaetetid-type and Post-Devonian stromatoporoid-type Demospongiae: Systematic descriptions. <em>Treatise Online.</em> 58:1-95., available online at https://doi.org/10.17161/to.v0i0.4447 [details]
current name source
West, R. R.; Vacelet, J.; Wood, R. A.; Willenz, P.; Hartman, W. D. (2013). Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 4A–B: Hypercalcified extant and fossil chaetetid-type and Post-Devonian stromatoporoid-type Demospongiae: Systematic descriptions. <em>Treatise Online.</em> 58:1-95., available online at https://doi.org/10.17161/to.v0i0.4447 [details]
extant flag source
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. [details]
habitat flag source
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. [details]
Unverified
Descriptive info Benton, 1993 habitat flag(s): M; stratigraphic range: Cretaceous (Aptian)-Holocene (?Recent) [details]
Taxonomic remark IRMNG presently follows West et al., 2013, who place this family in order Hadromerida; by contrast, WoRMS (2023 version) places it in order Clionaida (record last edited by R. van Soest, 2015 and N. Boury-Esnault, 2018). From West et al.: Based on Acanthochaetetes wellsi, the only known living representative of the genus, Hartman and Goreau (1975) and Hartman (1982) suggested the sclerosponge family Acanthochaetetidae be classified in a separate order, Tabulospongida. This suggestion is no longer accepted as it overemphasizes the presence of a calcareous skeleton; Acanthochaetetes is now assigned to the Hadromerida (Rützler & Vacelet, 2002). [details]
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