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]
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| Specimen from the collections of Auckland War Memorial Museum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Demospongiae |
| Order: | Bubarida |
| Family: | Dictyonellidae |
| Genus: | Acanthella |
| Species: | A. dendyi
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| Binomial name | |
| Acanthella dendyi | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Phakellia dendyi Bergquist, 1970 | |
Holotype sites[2]
Distribution
editIn 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
edit- ^ a b c "WoRMS – World Register of Marine Species – Acanthella dendyi (Bergquist, 1970)". Marinespecies.org. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
- ^ a b c "Australian Faunal Directory: Phakellia dendyi Bergquist, 1970". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- ^ 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.
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