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Suberites Nardo 1833

Description

Genus Suberites Nardo, 1833

Restricted synonomy. Suberites Nardo, 1833, pg. 523. Ficulina Gray, 1867, pg. 523. Suberanthus Lendenfeld, 1898, pg. 144. Suberella Thiele, 1905, pg. 416. [Suberella] Burton, 1929, pg. 446. Carnleia Burton, 1930a, pg. 519; Laxosuberella Burton, 1930b, pg. 675.

Type species. Alcyonium domuncula Olivi, 1792 (by original description).

Diagnosis (from van Soest 2002). Massive, compact, usually with velvety smooth surface caused by dense ectosomal arrangement of tylostyles oriented perpendicularly to the sponge surface, points outward; peripheral choanosomal skeleton consists of closely packed strands of tylostyles distinctly larger than ectosomal ones, with interior skeleton of densely packed tylostyles in confusion. Centrotylote, minutely spined microstrongyles may be present in a few species and if so are concentrated at the surface. Approximately 80 species have been described (obvious synonyms and invalid genus assignments omitted). The genus is cosmopolitan in distribution but is most common in cold or temperate waters.

Notes

Published as part of Samaai, Toufiek, Maduray, Seshnee, Janson, Liesl & Ngwakum, Benedicta, 2017, A new species of habitat – forming Suberites (Porifera, Demospongiae, Suberitida) in the Benguela upwelling region (South Africa), pp. 49-81 in Zootaxa 4254 (1) on page 68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/545704

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Suberitidae
Genus
Suberites
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hadromerida
Phylum
Porifera
Scientific name authorship
Nardo
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Suberites Nardo, 1833 sec. Samaai, Maduray, Janson & Ngwakum, 2017

References

  • Nardo, G. D. (1833) Auszug aus einem neuen System der Spongiarien, wonach bereits die Aufstellung in der Universitats- Sammlung zu Padua gemacht ist. In: Isis. Oder Encyclopadische Zeitung Coll. Oken, Jena, pp. 519 - 523.
  • Gray, J. E. (1867) Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the descriptions of some new Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1867 (2), 492 - 558, pls. XXVII - XXVIII.
  • Lendenfeld, R. von (1898) Die Clavulina der Adria. Nova acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino Carolinae germanicae naturaecuriosorum, 69, 1 - 251, pls. I - XII. page (s), 144.
  • Thiele, J. (1905) Die Kiesel-und Hornschwamme der Sammlung Plate. Zoologische Jahrbucher Supplement 6 (Fauna Chilensis III), 407 - 496, pls. 27 - 33.
  • Burton, M. (1929) Porifera. Part II. Antarctic sponges. British Antarctic (' Terra Nova') Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report, London, British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 6 (4), 393 - 458, pls. I - V.
  • Burton, M. (1930 a) Norwegian Sponges from the Norman Collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1930 (2), 487 - 546, pls. I - II.
  • Burton, M. (1930 b) Additions to the sponge fauna of the Gulf of Manaar. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 10, 5 (30), 665 - 676.
  • Olivi, G. (1792) Alcyonium and Spongia. Zoologia Adriatica, 1792, 235 - 254 & 262 - 273.
  • Soest, R. W. M. van (2002) Family Suberitidae. In: Hooper, J. N. A & van Soest, R. W. M. (Eds.), Systema Porifera, a guide to the classification of the sponges. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York, pp. 227 - 244.