Antho is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Microcionidae.[2] The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution and is known from virtually all parts of the global ocean.[2][3] There are 62 species in five subgenera.[4]

Antho
Antho (plocamia) bremecae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Poecilosclerida
Family: Microcionidae
Genus: Antho
(Gray, 1867)
Subgenera and species

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • Acarnia (Gray, 1867)
  • Anomoclathria (Topsent, 1929)
  • Clathriella (Burton, 1935)
  • Dirrhopalum (Ridley, 1881)
  • Dyctioclathria (Ferrer-Hernandez, 1921)
  • Echinoplocamia (Burton, 1959)
  • Heteroclathria (Topsent, 1904)
  • Isociona (Hallmann, 1920)
  • Isopenectya (Hallmann, 1920)
  • Lissoplocamia Brøndsted, 1924
  • Placomia
  • Plocamiopsis (Topsent, 1904)
  • Protoclathria (Burton, 1932)
  • Quintoxilla (de Laubenfels, 1950)
  • Quizciona (de Laubenfels, 1936)

Species edit

The following species are recognised:[4]

Subgenus Antho (Acarnia) (Gray, 1867)

  • Antho (Acarnia) arctica (Koltun, 1959)
  • Antho (Acarnia) bakusi (Sim & Lee, 1998)
  • Antho (Acarnia) circonflexa (Lévi, 1960)
  • Antho (Acarnia) coriacea (Bowerbank, 1874)
  • Antho (Acarnia) elegans (Ridley & Dendy, 1887)
  • Antho (Acarnia) frondifera (Lamarck, 1814)
  • Antho (Acarnia) illgi (Bakus, 1966)
  • Antho (Acarnia) inconspicua (Desqueyroux, 1972)
  • Antho (Acarnia) kellyae (Samaai & Gibbons, 2005)
  • Antho (Acarnia) levii (Bergquist & Fromont, 1988)
  • Antho (Acarnia) pellita (Van Soest, Meesters & Becking, 2014)
  • Antho (Acarnia) penneyi (Laubenfels, 1936)
  • Antho (Acarnia) planoramosa (Koltun, 1962)
  • Antho (Acarnia) prima (Brøndsted, 1924)
  • Antho (Acarnia) ridgwayi (Stone, Lehnert & Hoff, 2019)
  • Antho (Acarnia) ridleyi (Hentschel, 1912)
  • Antho (Acarnia) signata (Topsent, 1904)
  • Antho (Acarnia) simplicissima (Burton, 1932)
  • Antho (Acarnia) spinulosa (Tanita, 1968)

Subgenus Antho (Antho) (Gray, 1867)

  • Antho (Antho) arcitenens (Topsent, 1892)
  • Antho (Antho) atlantidae (Van Soest, Beglinger & De Voogd, 2013)
  • Antho (Antho) barbadensis (van Soest, 1984)
  • Antho (Antho) brondstedi (Bergquist & Fromont, 1988)
  • Antho (Antho) burtoni (Lévi, 1952)
  • Antho (Antho) dichotoma (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Antho (Antho) graceae (Bakus, 1966)
  • Antho (Antho) granditoxa (Picton & Goodwin, 2007)
  • Antho (Antho) heterospiculata (Brøndsted, 1924)
  • Antho (Antho) inconstans (Topsent, 1925)
  • Antho (Antho) involvens (Schmidt, 1864)
  • Antho (Antho) mediterranea (Babiç, 1922)
  • Antho (Antho) morisca (Schmidt, 1868)
  • Antho (Antho) nuda (Van Soest, Beglinger & De Voogd, 2013)
  • Antho (Antho) opuntioides (Lamarck, 1815)
  • Antho (Antho) oxeifera (Ferrer-Hernandez, 1921)
  • Antho (Antho) paradoxa (Babiç, 1922)
  • Antho (Antho) paucispina (Sarà & Siribelli, 1962)
  • Antho (Antho) tuberosa (Hentschel, 1911)

Subgenus Antho (Isopenectya) (Hallmann, 1920)

  • Antho (Isopenectya) chartacea (Whitelegge, 1907)
  • Antho (Isopenectya) primitiva (Burton, 1935)
  • Antho (Isopenectya) punicea (Hooper, 1996)
  • Antho (Isopenectya) saintvincenti (Hooper, 1996)

Subgenus Antho (Jia) (Laubenfels, 1930)

  • Antho (Jia) brattegardi (van Soest & Stone, 1986)
  • Antho (Jia) galapagosensis (Van Soest, Rützler & Sim, 2016)
  • Antho (Jia) jia (Laubenfels, 1930)
  • Antho (Jia) lithisticola (Van Soest, Rützler & Sim, 2016)
  • Antho (Jia) lithophoenix (de Laubenfels, 1927)
  • Antho (Jia) ramosa (Van Soest, Rützler & Sim, 2016)
  • Antho (Jia) wunschorum (Van Soest, Rützler & Sim, 2016)

Subgenus Antho (Plocamia) (Schmidt, 1870)

  • Antho (Plocamia) anisotyla (Lévi, 1960)
  • Antho (Plocamia) arbuscula (Burton, 1959)
  • Antho (Plocamia) bremecae (Schejter, Bertolino & Calcinai, 2017)
  • Antho (Plocamia) erecta (Ferrer Hernández, 1923)
  • Antho (Plocamia) gymnazusa (Schmidt, 1870)
  • Antho (Plocamia) hallezi (Topsent, 1904)
  • Antho (Plocamia) karykina (de Laubenfels, 1927)
  • Antho (Plocamia) karyoka (Dickinson, 1945)
  • Antho (Plocamia) lambei (Burton, 1935)
  • Antho (Plocamia) manaarensis (Carter, 1880)
  • Antho (Plocamia) novizelanica (Ridley & Duncan, 1881)
  • Antho (Plocamia) sarasiri (Costa, Pansini & Bertolino, 2019)

References edit

  1. ^ GBIF |id= 2240658|taxon=Antho |accessdate=10 August 2021
  2. ^ a b "Antho Gray, 1867". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  3. ^ Soest, Rob van; Rützler, Klaus; Sim, Chung-Ja (2016). "Crooked Anthos: proposed subgeneric status of Jia (Porifera, Poecilosclerida), with descriptions of four new species". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 96 (2): 221–235. doi:10.1017/S002531541400191X. ISSN 0025-3154. S2CID 84116530.
  4. ^ a b "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Antho Gray, 1867". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2021-08-10.