Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Calcarea > Subclass Calcinea > Order Clathrinida > Family Leucaltidae > Genus Ascandra

Ascandra contorta (Bowerbank, 1866)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ascandra*	Haeckel, 1872	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Clathrina contorta*	(Bowerbank, 1866)	basionym
*Leucosolenia contorta*	Bowerbank, 1866	basionym
*Clathrina contorta*	(Bowerbank, 1866)	synonym
*Leucosolenia contorta*	Bowerbank, 1866	synonym

Literature

original description	Bowerbank, J.S. 1866a. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388.
new combination reference	Klautau, M; Azevedo, F; Cóndor-Luján, B; Rapp, HT; Collins, A; Russo, CAM. 2013. A Molecular Phylogeny for the Order Clathrinida Rekindles and Refines Haeckel's Taxonomic Proposal for Calcareous Sponges. Integrative and Comparative Biology; doi: 10.1093/icb/ict039
new combination reference	Haeckel, E. 1870d. Prodromus eines Systems der Kalkschwämme. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Medicin und Naturwissenschaft 5: 236-254 (also appeared in English as: Haeckel, E. 1870. Prodromus of a system of the Calcareous sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 5: 176-191).

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Citation

Klautau, M.; van Soest, R.; de Haas, H. (2014). Ascandra contorta (Bowerbank, 1866). In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M.; Cárdenas, P. (2014) World Porifera database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:236225