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Corticium Schmidt 1862

Description

Genus Corticium Schmidt, 1862

Definition. THIN ENcRUSTINg TO MASSIVE PLAkINIdS, WITH SPIcULES ALWAyS INcLUdINg cANdELAbRA. SMOOTH OR SPINEd dIOdS, TRIOdS ANd cALTHROPS, ANd LOPHOSE cALTHROPS cAN ALSO bE PRESENT (AMENdEd fROM MURIcy & DÍAZ 2002).

Type species. Corticium candelabrum ScHMIdT, 1862.

Notes

Published as part of Lage, Anaíra, Muricy, Guilherme, Ruiz, César & Pérez, Thierry, 2018, New sciaphilic plakinids (Porifera, Homoscleromorpha) from the Central-Western Pacific, pp. 8-38 in Zootaxa 4466 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4466.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1454345

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Plakinidae
Genus
Corticium
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Homosclerophorida
Phylum
Porifera
Scientific name authorship
Schmidt
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Corticium Schmidt, 1862 sec. Lage, Muricy, Ruiz & Pérez, 2018

References

  • Schmidt, O. (1862) Die Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, viii + 88 pp.
  • Muricy, G. & Diaz, M. C. (2002) Order Homosclerophorida Dendy, 1905, Family Plakinidae, Schulze, 1880. In: Hooper, J. N. A. & van Soest, R. W. M. (Eds.), Systema Porifera: A guide to the Classification of Sponges. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York, pp. 71 - 82. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 1 - 4615 - 0747 - 5 _ 6