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Acanthopolymastia

genus of sponges

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ3464614 ↗
Source-derived summary

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

Species

The genus Acanthopolymastia includes the following species:

Acanthopolymastia acanthoxa (Koltun, 1964)

Acanthopolymastia bathamae Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1997

Acanthopolymastia pisiformis Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1997

Acanthopolymastia villosa (Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1997)

References

Michelle Kelly-Borges; Patricia R. Bergquist (1997). "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". New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 31 (3): 367–402. doi:10.1080/00288330.1997.9516772. Wikidata Q55885986.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Acanthopolymastia” as genus of sponges. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1964, 1997, 1080—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Acanthopolymastia, genus and sponges can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as genus of sponges. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3464614. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1964, 1997 and 1080.

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Current terminology should not be projected backward without checking the classification used when the underlying evidence was created. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Acanthopolymastia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.