Acanthopolymastia acanthoxa

Taxobox
name = "Acanthopolymastia acanthoxa"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Porifera
classis = Demospongiae
ordo = Hadromerida
familia = Polymastiidae
genus = "Acanthopolymastia"
species = "A. acanthoxa"
binomial = "Acanthopolymastia acanthoxa"
binomial_authority = Koltun, 1964

"Acanthopolymastia acanthoxa" is a species of demosponge belonging to the family Polymastiidae. It is a deep-ocean species found on muddy substrates at depths of over 3000 m in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.

This is a brown, cushion-shaped sponge up to 4 cm across with a lateral fringe and a single papilla with a terminal opening.

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