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''Antho'' is a genus of
sponge Sponges or sea sponges are primarily marine invertebrates of the animal phylum Porifera (; meaning 'pore bearer'), a basal clade and a sister taxon of the diploblasts. They are sessile filter feeders that are bound to the seabed, and a ...
s belonging to the family
Microcionidae Microcionidae is a family (biology), family of marine demosponges. Subdivisions The following genera are recognized within the family Microcionidae: * Subfamily Microcioninae Carter 1875 ** ''Clathria'' Schmidt, 1862 ** ''Echinochalina'' Thiele ...
. The genus has a
cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and en ...
and is known from virtually all parts of the global ocean. There are 62 species in five subgenera.


Species

The following species are recognised: Subgenus ''Antho (Acarnia)'' (Gray, 1867) * ''Antho (Acarnia) arctica'' (Koltun, 1959) * ''Antho (Acarnia) bakusi'' (Sim & Lee, 1998) * ''Antho (Acarnia) circonflexa'' (Lévi, 1960) * ''Antho (Acarnia) coriacea'' (Bowerbank, 1874) * ''Antho (Acarnia) elegans'' (Ridley & Dendy, 1887) * ''Antho (Acarnia) frondifera'' (Lamarck, 1814) * ''Antho (Acarnia) illgi'' (Bakus, 1966) * ''Antho (Acarnia) inconspicua'' (Desqueyroux, 1972) * ''Antho (Acarnia) kellyae'' (Samaai & Gibbons, 2005) * ''Antho (Acarnia) levii'' (Bergquist & Fromont, 1988) * ''Antho (Acarnia) pellita'' (Van Soest, Meesters & Becking, 2014) * ''Antho (Acarnia) penneyi'' (Laubenfels, 1936) * ''Antho (Acarnia) planoramosa'' (Koltun, 1962) * '' Antho (Acarnia) prima'' (Brøndsted, 1924) * ''Antho (Acarnia) ridgwayi'' (Stone, Lehnert & Hoff, 2019) * ''Antho (Acarnia) ridleyi'' (Hentschel, 1912) * ''Antho (Acarnia) signata'' (Topsent, 1904) * ''Antho (Acarnia) simplicissima'' (Burton, 1932) * ''Antho (Acarnia) spinulosa'' (Tanita, 1968) Subgenus ''Antho (Antho)'' (Gray, 1867) * ''Antho (Antho) arcitenens'' (Topsent, 1892) * ''Antho (Antho) atlantidae'' (Van Soest, Beglinger & De Voogd, 2013) * ''Antho (Antho) barbadensis'' (van Soest, 1984) * ''Antho (Antho) brondstedi'' (Bergquist & Fromont, 1988) * ''Antho (Antho) burtoni'' (Lévi, 1952) * ''Antho (Antho) dichotoma'' (Linnaeus, 1767) * ''Antho (Antho) graceae'' (Bakus, 1966) * ''Antho (Antho) granditoxa'' (Picton & Goodwin, 2007) * ''Antho (Antho) heterospiculata'' (Brøndsted, 1924) * ''Antho (Antho) inconstans'' (Topsent, 1925) * ''Antho (Antho) involvens'' (Schmidt, 1864) * ''Antho (Antho) mediterranea'' (Babiç, 1922) * ''Antho (Antho) morisca'' (Schmidt, 1868) * ''Antho (Antho) nuda'' (Van Soest, Beglinger & De Voogd, 2013) * ''Antho (Antho) opuntioides'' (Lamarck, 1815) * ''Antho (Antho) oxeifera'' (Ferrer-Hernandez, 1921) * ''Antho (Antho) paradoxa'' (Babiç, 1922) * ''Antho (Antho) paucispina'' (Sarà & Siribelli, 1962) * ''Antho (Antho) tuberosa'' (Hentschel, 1911) Subgenus ''Antho (Isopenectya)'' (Hallmann, 1920) * ''Antho (Isopenectya) chartacea'' (Whitelegge, 1907) * ''Antho (Isopenectya) primitiva'' (Burton, 1935) * ''Antho (Isopenectya) punicea'' (Hooper, 1996) * ''Antho (Isopenectya) saintvincenti'' (Hooper, 1996) Subgenus ''Antho (Jia)'' (Laubenfels, 1930) * ''Antho (Jia) brattegardi'' (van Soest & Stone, 1986) * ''Antho (Jia) galapagosensis'' (Van Soest, Rützler & Sim, 2016) * ''Antho (Jia) jia'' (Laubenfels, 1930) * ''Antho (Jia) lithisticola'' (Van Soest, Rützler & Sim, 2016) * ''Antho (Jia) lithophoenix'' (de Laubenfels, 1927) * ''Antho (Jia) ramosa'' (Van Soest, Rützler & Sim, 2016) * ''Antho (Jia) wunschorum'' (Van Soest, Rützler & Sim, 2016) Subgenus ''Antho (Plocamia)'' (Schmidt, 1870) * ''Antho (Plocamia) anisotyla'' (Lévi, 1960) * ''Antho (Plocamia) arbuscula'' (Burton, 1959) * ''Antho (Plocamia) bremecae'' (Schejter, Bertolino & Calcinai, 2017) * ''Antho (Plocamia) erecta'' (Ferrer Hernández, 1923) * ''Antho (Plocamia) gymnazusa'' (Schmidt, 1870) * ''Antho (Plocamia) hallezi'' (Topsent, 1904) * ''Antho (Plocamia) karykina'' (de Laubenfels, 1927) * ''Antho (Plocamia) karyoka'' (Dickinson, 1945) * ''Antho (Plocamia) lambei'' (Burton, 1935) * ''Antho (Plocamia) manaarensis'' (Carter, 1880) * ''Antho (Plocamia) novizelanica'' (Ridley & Duncan, 1881) * ''Antho (Plocamia) sarasiri'' (Costa, Pansini & Bertolino, 2019)


References

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