Species Acanthochaetetes wellsi Hartman & Goreau, 1975

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acanthochaetetes wellsi Hartman, W.D. & Goreau, T.F. 1970. Jamaican coralline sponges: their morphology, ecology and fossil relatives. In The biology of the Porifera. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London 25: 205-243 [2].

  Type data:

   Holotype YPM 9077 wet (several paratypes (numbers unknown) in NMNH Washington, BMNH London, MNHN Paris and YPM), Cave, Anae Island, Guam, 7-9m depth [no coords available].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Coral Sea, QLD; extends from the Red Sea, W Indian Ocean, to French Polynesia, E Pacific.

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, filter-feeder, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Cryptic in shallow water coral caves, very dim light, to deeper coral reef waters.

 

General References

Reitner, J., Woerheide, G., Lange, R. & Thiel, V. 1997. Biomineralization of calcified skeletons in three Pacific coralline demosponges—an approach to the evolution of basal skeletons. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 201: 371-383 [371]

Reitner, J., Woerheide, G., Thiel, V. & Gautret, P. 1996. Reef caves and cryptic habitats of Indo-Pacific Reefs — distribution patterns of coralline sponges and microbialites. In Reitner, J., Neuweiler, F. & Gunkel, F. (eds) Global and regional Controls on Biogenic Sedimentation. 1. Reef evolution. Research Reports. Goettinger Arb. Geol. Palaeontol., Sb2 (Goettingen). 91-100 pp. [91]

Thiel, V., Blumenberg, M., Hefter, J., Pape, T., Pomponi, S.A., Reed, J., Reitner, J., Wörheide, G. & Michaelis, W. 2002. A chemical view on the most ancestral metazoa - biomarker chemotaxonomy of hexactinellid sponges. Naturwissenschaften 89: 60-66 [61]

Woerheide, G., Reitner, J. & Gautret, P. 1996. Biocalcification processes in three coralline sponges from the Lizard Island Section (Great Barrier Reef, Australia): the Stromatoporoid Astrosclera, the Chaetitid Spirastrella (Acanthochaetetes) and the Sphinctozoid Vaceletia (Demospongiae). In Reitner, J., Neuweiler, F. & Gunkel, F. (eds) Global and regional Controls on Biogenic Sedimentation. 1. Reef evolution. Research Reports. Goettinger Arb. Geol. Palaeontol., Sb2 (Goettingen). 149-153 pp. [149]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
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