Dolichacantha shikotani Koltun, 1970
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Dolichacantha shikotani Koltun, 1970
- Name authority
- Koltun, 1970
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Porifera
- Class
- Demospongiae
- Order
- Poecilosclerida
- Family
- Acarnidae
- Genus
- Dolichacantha
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Source habitat flags: Marine: yes · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumPorifera Grant, 1836
- classDemospongiae Sollas, 1885
- subclassHeteroscleromorpha Cárdenas, Pérez & Boury-Esnault, 2012
- orderPoecilosclerida Topsent, 1928
- familyAcarnidae Dendy, 1922
- genusDolichacantha Hentschel, 1914
- speciesDolichacantha shikotani Koltun, 1970
Close classified relatives
No other member of this genus is present in the selected snapshot.
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- Koltun, V. M. (1970). Sponge fauna of the northwestern Pacific from the shallows to the hadal depths. Pp. 165-221. In: Bogorov, V.G. (Ed.), Fauna of the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench and Its Environment. Institute of Oceanology of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., 86. (Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Trudy Instituta Okeanologii in P.P. Shishov and Izdatelstvo Nauka, Moskwa), 1–372, pls 1–8. Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:374JZ. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.