Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Poecilosclerida > Suborder Microcionina > Family Acarnidae > Genus Wigginsia

Wigginsia wigginsi de Laubenfels, 1953

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Wigginsia*	de Laubenfels, 1953	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Antho fragilis*	(Koltun, 1959)	basionym
*Plocamia fragilis*	Koltun, 1959	basionym
*Plocamionida fragilis*	(Koltun, 1959)	basionym
*Antho fragilis*	(Koltun, 1959)	synonym
*Plocamia fragilis*	Koltun, 1959	synonym
*Plocamionida fragilis*	(Koltun, 1959)	synonym

Literature

original description	Laubenfels, M.W. De 1953c. Sponges of the Alaskan Arctic. Smithosnian Miscellaneous Collection 121 (6): 1-22.
basis of record	Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Acarnidae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 412-431. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow).
additional source	Khodakovskaya, A.V.2004. On the synonymy and distribution of Wigginsia wigginsi de Laubenfels, 1953 (Porifera, Demospongiae: Acarnidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 12 (2): 143-144.

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External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Wigginsia wigginsi de Laubenfels, 1953. 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:167450