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Actinostroma filixtextum

Stromatoporoidea - Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae

Taxonomy

Actinostroma filixtextum was named by Lecompte (1951).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

A. bifarium, A. clathratum, A. conglomeratum, A. crassepilatum, A. dehorneae, A. devonense, A. filitextum, A. geminatum, A. intermedium, A. jurmanense, A. mamontovi, A. miraculum, A. papillosum, A. perlaminatum, A. perspiquum, A. septatum, A. sertiforme, A. stellulata, A. strictum, A. verrucosum

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1951	Actinostroma filixtextum Lecompte
1996	Actinostroma filixtextum Stearn p. 200 figs. 3.3, 3.4

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
phylum	Porifera	Grant 1836
class	Stromatoporoidea	(Nicholson and Murie 1878)
order	Actinostromatida	Bogoyavlenskaya 1969

Rank	Name	Author
family	Actinostromatidae	Nicholson 1886
genus	Actinostroma	Nicholson 1886
species	filixtextum	Lecompte 1951

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Actinostroma filixtextum Lecompte 1951

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

high Mg calciteo

Locomotion:

stationaryo

Attached:

yeso

Life habit:

epifaunalo

Diet:

suspension feedero

Diet 2:

photosymbiotico

Vision:

blindo

Created:

2007-09-07 03:24:54

Modified:

2010-02-15 07:23:24

Source: o = order

Reference: Kiessling 2004

Collections

No collection or age range data are available