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Suberites Nardo 1833

Description

Genus Suberites Nardo, 1833

Diagnosis (sensu van Soest 2002):

Sponges are massive, compact, usually with velvety smooth surface, caused by dense ectosomal arrangement of tylostyles oriented perpendicularly to the sponge surface, pointing outward; peripheral choanosomal skeleton consists of closely packed strands of tylostyles distinctly larger than ectosomal ones, with interior skeleton of densely packed unordered tylostyles. Centrotylote, minutely spined microstrongyles may be present in a few species and if so are concentrated at the surface.

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

Other

Published as part of Plotkin, Alexander S. & Janussen, Dorte, 2008, Polymastiidae and Suberitidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) of the deep Weddell Sea, Antarctic *, pp. 95-135 in Zootaxa 1866 on page 128, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183878

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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. Plotkin & Janussen, 2008

References

  • Soest, R. W. M. van (2002) Family Suberitidae Schmidt, 1870. In: Hooper, J. N. A. & van Soest, R. W. M. (Eds.), Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges. Vol. 1. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York, pp. 227 - 244.