Published December 31, 2000 | Version v1
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Teichonopsis Dendy & Row 1913

  • 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 Teichonopsis Dendy & Row, 1913

TYPE SPECIES. — Teichonella labyrinthica Carter, 1878 by monotypy.

DIAGNOSIS. — Pedunculate calyciform Grantiidae with a syconoid organization and an expanded atrium. The thin wall is highly folded and the convoluted edge corresponds to the oscular margin.

DESCRIPTION

The separation of this genus from Grantia is justified because of its particular pattern of growth, through which the atrial cavity becomes wide open. As it grows the sponge wall becomes a highly folded asymmetric leaf, freely traversed by the water current that runs from the lower cortical to the upper atrial surface.

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 222, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5392175

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Dendy & Row
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Porifera
Order
Leucosolenida
Family
Grantiidae
Genus
Teichonopsis
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Teichonopsis Dendy, 1913 sec. Borojevic, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 2000