''Acanthella dendyi'' is a marine sessile filter-feeder
[ sponge in the family Dictyonellidae, first described by ]Patricia Bergquist
Dame Patricia Rose Bergquist (née Smyth, 10 March 1933 – 9 September 2009) was a New Zealand zoologist who specialised in anatomy and taxonomy. At the time of her death, she was professor emerita of zoology and honorary professor of anatomy ...
in 1970 as ''Phakellia dendyi''
Distribution
In Australian waters it is found from Victorian coastal water, all the way up the east coast to Queensland and then all the way across the northern coasts to the north-west coast of Western Australia, at depths from 8–180 m.
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Distribution in Australian coastal waters
Taxa named by Patricia Bergquist
Demospongiae
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