Published December 31, 2000 | Version v1
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Synute Dendy 1892

  • 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 Synute Dendy, 1892

TYPE SPECIES. — Synute pulchella Dendy, 1892 by monotypy.

DIAGNOSIS. — Grantiidae with a cormus entirely made of fused syconoid units and surrounded by a common cortex with a special skeleton containing giant longitudinal diactines (Dendy 1892a).

DESCRIPTION

This genus is monospecific and only known from the southern Australian coasts. Its organization is reminiscent of colonial ascidians such as Botryllus.

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 pages 222-223, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5392175

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Biodiversity

Family
Grantiidae
Genus
Synute
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Leucosolenida
Phylum
Porifera
Scientific name authorship
Dendy
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Synute Dendy, 1892 sec. Borojevic, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 2000