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Vosmaeropsis 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. Federal de Ensino Tecnologico de Quimica, Unidade de Rio de Janeiro, Senador Furtado 121 / 125, Maracana, 20270 - 021 Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Description

Genus Vosmaeropsis Dendy, 1892

Type species. — Heteropia macera Carter, 1886 by subsequent designation (Dendy & Row 1913).

Diagnosis. — Heteropiidae with a sylleibid or leuconoid organisation. The choanoskeleton is composed of proximal subatrial triactine spicules and an irregular layer of scattered triactines and tetractines.

Notes

Published as part of Borojevic, Radovan & Klautau, Michelle, 2000, Calcareous sponges from New Caledonia, pp. 187-201 in Zoosystema 22 (2) on page 198, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5399987

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Dendy
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Porifera
Order
Leucosolenida
Family
Heteropiidae
Genus
Vosmaeropsis
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Vosmaeropsis Dendy, 1892 sec. Borojevic & Klautau, 2000