Acanthopolymastia

Taxobox
name = "Acanthopolymastia"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Porifera
classis = Demospongiae
ordo = Hadromerida
familia = Polymastiidae
genus = "Acanthopolymastia"
genus_authority = Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1997
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text

"Acanthopolymastia" is a genus of demosponges belonging to the family Polymastiidae. These small, bristly, cushion-shaped sponges are only known from deep-sea sites (to a depth of 3400 m) in the southern oceans.

pecies

Species include:
*"Acanthopolymastia acanthoxa"
*"Acanthopolymastia bathamae"
*"Acanthopolymastia pisiformis"

References

*cite journal |quotes=no |url=http://www.rsnz.org/publish/nzjmfr/1997/32.pdf |title= Revision of Southwest Pacific Polymastiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with descriptions of new species of "Polymastia" Bowerbank, "Tylexocladus" Topsent, and "Acanthopolymastia" gen. nov. from New Zealand and the Norfolk Ridge, New Caledonia |journal=New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research |volume=31 |year=1997 |author=Michelle Kelly-Borges & Patricia R. Bergquist |pages=367–402