# Acanthascus

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{{Short description|Genus of sponges}}
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|taxon=Acanthascus
|authority=Schulze, 1886<ref name=schulze1886>{{cite book|last=Schulze|first=F.E.|year=1886|title=Über den Bau und das System der Hexactinelliden|publisher=Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Physikalisch-Mathematisch Classe)|pages=1–97}}</ref>
}}

'''Acanthascus''' is a genus of sponges in the family [Rossellidae](/source/Rossellidae). Species include:<ref name=worms>{{cite WoRMS|year=2018|title=''Acanthascus'' Schulze, 1886|id=171966|access-date=2018-11-28|db=Porifera}}</ref>

*''[Acanthascus alani](/source/Acanthascus_alani)'' <small>Ijima, 1898</small>
*''[Acanthascus cactus](/source/Acanthascus_cactus)'' <small>Schulze, 1886</small>
*''[Acanthascus koltuni](/source/Acanthascus_koltuni)'' <small>Reiswig & Stone, 2013</small>
*''[Acanthascus malacus](/source/Acanthascus_malacus)'' <small>Reiswig, 2014</small>
*''[Acanthascus pachyderma](/source/Acanthascus_pachyderma)'' <small>Okada, 1932</small>
*''[Acanthascus platei](/source/Acanthascus_platei)'' <small>Schulze, 1886</small>
*''[Acanthascus profundum](/source/Acanthascus_profundum)'' <small>(Koltun, 1967)</small>

==References==
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Category:Hexactinellida
Category:Hexactinellida genera
Category:Sponges described in 1886

{{Porifera-stub}}

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