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Nicola Cóndor-Luján & Klautau, 2016, gen. nov.
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Description
Nicola gen. nov.
Etymology. For Nicole Boury-Esnault in recognition of her dedicated work on the taxonomy of sponges, including calcareous sponges.
Type species. Nicola tetela (Borojevic & Peixinho, 1976)
Diagnosis. Clathrinida with a globular to ovoid body composed of parallel tubes that coalesce at the apical and basal regions. They do not anastomose nor ramify. The skeleton exclusively contains sagittal spicules: triactines and tetractines. The paired actines are rudimentary and they form a straight angle (180°s). The unpaired actine is always the longest actine. Diactines including trichoxeas may be added. The aquiferous system is asconoid .
Notes
Published as part of Cóndor-Luján, B. & Klautau, M., 2016, Nicola gen. nov. with redescription of Nicola tetela (Borojevic & Peixinho, 1976) (Porifera: Calcarea: Calcinea: Clathrinida), pp. 230-238 in Zootaxa 4103 (3) on page 233, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/271198
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Borojevic & Peixinho
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Porifera
- Order
- Clathrinida
- Family
- Clathrinidae
- Genus
- Nicola
- Species
- tetela
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nicola Cóndor-Luján & Klautau, 2016
References
- Borojevic, R. & Peixinho, S. (1976) Eponge calcaires du nord-nord-est du Bresil. Bulletin du Museum National d´Histoire Naturelle, 3 (402), 988 - 1036.