AMEIRIDAE Monard, 1927, emend. Lang, 1936


AMEIRA Boeck, 1865 [PDF]


  • Ameira atlantica Noodt, 1958 [Canary Islands; marine coastal watres]
  • Ameira atlantica f. mediterranea Kunz, 1975 [France; coastal sea waters]
  • Ameira bathyalis Becker & Schriever, 1979 [Helgoland?; ?]
  • Ameira bengalensis Rao & Ganapati, 1969 [India;marine interstitial]
  • Ameira confluens Ranga Reddy, 1984 [India; lakes] *
  • Ameira divagans divagans Nicholls, 1940 [St. Lawrence; marine]
  • Ameira divagans f. africana Kunz, 1963 [Africa; marine sand]
  • Ameira divagans f. pontica Marinov, 1973 [Black Sea]
  • Ameira faroensis Schriever, 1982 [north Atlantic]
  • Ameira listensis Mielke, 1973 [North Sea]
  • Ameira longipes Boeck, 1865 [Europe, Canada, Tunisia; marine, brackish waters, lagoons, tidal pools]
  • Ameira longispina Gee, 2009 [Isles of Scilly, UK ]
  • Ameira lusitanica Galhano, 1970 [Portugal; marine interstitial]
  • Ameira minor Lang, 1948
  • Ameira parascotti Chislenko, 1977 [Franz Josef Land; sponges associated]
  • Ameira parvula (Claus, 1866) [cosmopolitan; marine coastal waters] [PDF]
  • Ameira parvula f. nana Willey, 1935 [France; marine sand]
  • Ameira parvuloides Lang, 1965 [USA; marine sand, tidal pools]
  • Ameira reducta Petkovski, 1954 [Bulgaria; marine coastal waters]
  • Ameira scotti Sars, 1911 [Europe, Africa, Brazil; marine, anchialine caves] ***
  • Ameira scotti var. brevicornis Monard, 1926 [Europe; marine]
  • Ameira speciosa Lang, 1948
  • Ameira spinipes Nicholls, 1940 [St. Lawrence; marine]
  • Ameira tenella Sars, 1907 [Ireland, Norway; marine] **
  • Ameira tenuicornis T. Scott, 1902 [north Europe, USA; marine sand, amongst algae]
  • Ameira usitata Klie, 1950 [Helgoland; marine sand]

    * Probably belonging to a new genus according to Conroy-Dalton & Huys (1996)

    ** = Filexilia azorica (Conroy-Dalton & Huys, 1996)

    *** synonym: Ameira scotti brasiliensis Jakobi, 1954 (Lang, 1965)


    QUESTIONABLE SPECIES: A. brevipes Kunz, 1954 sensu Apostolov (1977), A. brevis pontica Apostolov, 1969; A. curviseta Lang, 1965; A. marina (Jaschnov, 1935): A. scotti ssp. brasiliensis Jakobi, 1954; A. minor, Lang, 1965; A. minuta Boeck sensu Wiborg, 1964; A. pusilla, Lang, 1965; A. sibogae Lang, 1965; A. trisetosa Krishnaswamy, 1957; A. exigua T.Scott, 1894; A. speciosa Lang, 1965; A. simulans T. Scott, 1912; A. tau Sars.




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