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Oceanapia Norman 1869

Description

Genus Oceanapia Norman, 1869

Synonymy (see Desqueyroux-Faúndez & Valentine 2002).

Type species. Isodictya robusta Bowerbank, 1866

Definition. Phloeodictyidae with a compact external ectosomal crust composed of tangential megascleres, often

surrounding a hollow body and numerous ubiquitous fistulae, megascleres oxeas or strongyles and microscleres, if present, sigmata or toxas (De Weerdt 1985).

Notes

Published as part of Neto, Carlos Santos, Nascimento, Elielton, Cavalcanti, Thaynã & Pinheiro, Ulisses, 2018, Taxonomy of Oceanapia Norman, 1869 (Demospongiae: Haplosclerida: Phloeodictyidae) from the Brazilian coast, pp. 363-376 in Zootaxa 4455 (2) on pages 364-365, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4455.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/1457303

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Phloeodictyidae
Genus
Oceanapia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Haplosclerida
Phylum
Porifera
Scientific name authorship
Norman
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Oceanapia Norman, 1869 sec. Neto, Nascimento, Cavalcanti & Pinheiro, 2018

References

  • Norman, A. M. (1869) Shetland Final Dredging Report. Part ii. On the Crustacea, Tunicata, Polyzoa, Echinodermata, Actinozoa, Hydrozoa, and Porifera. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 38, 247 - 336.
  • Desqueyroux-Faundez, R. & Valentine, C. (2002) Family Phloeodictyidae Carter, 1882. 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, Boston, Dordrecht, London and Moscow, pp. 893 - 905. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 1 - 4615 - 0747 - 5 _ 94
  • Bowerbank, J. S. (1866) A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Vol. 2. London, Ray Society, xx + 388 pp.
  • De Weerdt, W. H. (1985) A systematic revision of the north-eastern Atlantic shallow-water Haplosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae): 1. Introduction, Oceanapiidae and Petrosiidae. Beaufortia, 35 (5), 61 - 91.