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Jaspis Gray 1867

Description

Genus Jaspis Gray, 1867

Diagnosis. Encrusting or massive sponges without triaenes; choanosomal skeleton composed of oxeas irregularly interlaced, ectosomal skeleton formed by a layer of paratangential oxeas generally smaller than those in the choanosome; microscleres are euasters without a centrum; never being spherasters (sensu Uriz 2002).

Notes

Published as part of Sitjà, Cèlia & Maldonado, Manuel, 2014, New and rare sponges from the deep shelf of the Alboran Island (Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean), pp. 141-179 in Zootaxa 3760 (2) on page 148, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3760.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4908941

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Ancorinidae
Genus
Jaspis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Astrophorida
Phylum
Porifera
Scientific name authorship
Gray
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Jaspis Gray, 1867 sec. Sitjà & Maldonado, 2014

References

  • Uriz, M. J. (2002) Family Ancorinidae Schmidt, 1870. In: Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (Eds.), Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York, pp. 108 - 126.