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Rhizaxinella Keller 1880
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Genus Rhizaxinella Keller, 1880
Diagnosis (sensu van Soest 2002):
Pedunculate sponges, with spherical, ovoid or cylindrical body carried on a simple or ramified stalk, normally attached to the substrate by a root system; usually an apical oscule. Body with a moreorless radial skeleton and with brushes of spicules at the surface, skeleton of the stalk a tightly packed mass of aligned megascleres, bound by spongin. Megascleres are tylostyles of different sizes with raphides in trichodragmas.
Type species: Rhizaxinella clavigera Keller, 1880 (by monotypy) = junior synonym of Alcyonium pyrifera delle Chiaje, 1828.
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Published as part of Plotkin, Alexander S. & Janussen, Dorte, 2008, Polymastiidae and Suberitidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) of the deep Weddell Sea, Antarctic *, pp. 95-135 in Zootaxa 1866 on page 126, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183878Files
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.183878 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFD1FFA45E6AFFB85E5E1447FFB3AA43 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03E887DC5E75FFA75EC917F5FEC6AF44 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Suberitidae
- Genus
- Rhizaxinella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hadromerida
- Phylum
- Porifera
- Scientific name authorship
- Keller
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rhizaxinella Keller, 1880 sec. Plotkin & Janussen, 2008
References
- Soest, R. W. M. van (2002) Family Suberitidae Schmidt, 1870. In: Hooper, J. N. A. & van Soest, R. W. M. (Eds.), Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges. Vol. 1. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York, pp. 227 - 244.