Dragmacidon australe explained

Dragmacidon australe is a species of sponge in the family, Axinellidae.^[1]

It was first described in 1970 by Patricia Bergquist as Pseudaxinella australis^[2] It was appears to have been transferred to the genus, Dragmacidon, in 2002, by Belinda Alvarez and John Hooper (but the transfer may have occurred in 2000).^{[1] [3] [4] [5]}

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Notes and References

1. Web site: WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Dragmacidon australe (Bergquist, 1970). 2020-09-23. www.marinespecies.org. en.
2. Bergquist, P.R.. 1970. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 2 (Axinellida and Halichondrida). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir. 51. 9–85.
3. Taxonomic revision of the order Halichondrida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from northern Australia. Family Axinellidae. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory. Alvarez, B. & Hooper, J.N.A.. 2009. 25. 27–28. 10.5962/p.287446 . 4951580 . free.
4. Alvarez. B.. Crisp. M.. D.. Driver. F.. Hooper. J.N.A.. Van Soest. R.W.M.. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships of the family Axinellidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) using morphological and molecular data. Zoologica Scripta. en. 29. 2. 169–198. 10.1046/j.1463-6409.2000.00029.x. 84701079 . 0300-3256.
5. Book: Alvarez, B. & Hooper, J.N.A. . 2002. Family Axinellidae.(724-747). Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. . Systema Porifera. A guide to the supraspecific classification of the phylum Porifera. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. New York.