Published December 31, 2000 | Version v1
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Minchinellidae 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

Family MINCHINELLIDAE Dendy & Row, 1913

TYPE GENUS. — Minchinella Kirkpatrick, 1908 by original designation.

DIAGNOSIS. — Lithonida with a choanoskeleton consisting of a primary network of tetractines cemented or linked together in a variety of ways.

DESCRIPTION

Vacelet (1981) provided an identification key of the known Recent species. The family includes several fossil genera, whose definitions have to be revised.

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 256-257, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5392175

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Dendy & Row
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Porifera
Order
Lithonida
Family
Minchinellidae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Minchinellidae Dendy, 1913 sec. Borojevic, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 2000