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