Published December 31, 2000
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Placospongiidae Gray 1867
Creators
- 1. Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D. C. 20560 - 0163 (USA) ruetzler. klaus @ nmnh. si. edu.
- 2. Queensland Museum, P. O. Box 3300, South Brisbane, Qld 4101 (Australia) JohnH @ qm. qld. gov. au.
Description
Family PLACOSPONGIIDAE Gray, 1867
DIAGNOSIS (revised). — Hadromerida with tylostyles as megascleres and selenasters or amphiaster-like sterrasters (amphinolasters) as primary microscleres forming polygonal cortical crusts. Cortical plates separated by contractile ectosomal pore grooves bearing ostia and oscula. Tylostyles in tracts radiating from the base toward the surface and supporting the margins of the cortical plates. Accessory microscleres include spirasters, spherasters, and spherules.
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.5400184 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/7708EB18E718FFCDFA0BFE7D3C52CA06 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/8B319360E71AFFCFFABAFDB23D8BCEED (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Placospongiidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Clionaida
- Phylum
- Porifera
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Placospongiidae Gray, 1867 sec. Rützler & Hooper, 2000