Published December 31, 2000 | Version v1
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Heteropia Carter 1886

  • 1. Departamento de Histologia e Embriologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68021, 21941 - 970 Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) radovan @ iq. ufrj. br
  • 2. Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille (CNRS-Université de la Méditerranée, UMR 6540 DIMAR), Station marine d'Endoume, F- 13007 Marseille (France) esnault @ com. univ-mrs. fr jvacelet @ com. univ-mrs. fr

Description

Genus Heteropia Carter, 1886

TYPE SPECIES. — Aphroceras ramosa Carter, 1886 by monotypy.

DIAGNOSIS. — Heteropiidae with a syconoid organization, an articulate choanoskeleton, and where the cortical skeleton consists of longitudinal large diactines, with occasionally tangential triactines and perpendicular small diactines.

DESCRIPTION

Heteropia in the family Heteropiidae corresponds to the same grade of skeletal complexity than Ute in the family Grantiidae.

Notes

Published as part of Borojevic, Radovan, Boury-Esnault, Nicole & Vacelet, Jean, 2000, A revision of the supraspecific classification of the subclass Calcaronea (Porifera, class Calcarea), pp. 203-263 in Zoosystema 22 (2) on page 236, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5392175

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Biodiversity

Family
Heteropiidae
Genus
Heteropia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Leucosolenida
Phylum
Porifera
Scientific name authorship
Carter
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Heteropia Carter, 1886 sec. Borojevic, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 2000