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Stelletta Schmidt 1862
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Description
Genus Stelletta Schmidt, 1862
Diagnosis. Massive sponges with a moreorless collagenous rich cortex; triaenes often abundant, more rarely absent, oxeas and from one to three types of euasters, one of them confined to the choanosome, the other(s) sparse through the sponge. Occasional accessory ortho or trichodragmata. Microscleres may be lacking altogether (emended from Uriz, 2002a).
Type species. Stelletta grubei Schmidt, 1862.
Notes
Published as part of Esteves, Eduardo L. & Muricy, Guilherme, 2005, A new species of Stelletta (Demospongiae, Astrophorida) without microscleres from Abrolhos Archipelago, northeastern Brazil, pp. 43-52 in Zootaxa 1006 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1006.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/5048780
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Schmidt
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Porifera
- Order
- Astrophorida
- Family
- Ancorinidae
- Genus
- Stelletta
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Stelletta Schmidt, 1862 sec. Esteves & Muricy, 2005
References
- Uriz, M. J. (2002 a) Family Ancorinidae Schmidt, 1870. In: Hooper, J. & Soest, R. W. M. van (Eds.) Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges, 1. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York, pp. 108 - 126.