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Dactylocalyx Stutchbury 1841

  • 1. Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MN-UFRJ), Departamento de Invertebrados. Quinta da Boa vista, s / n, CEP 20940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. & juliamartinsmoser @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5638 - 3758
  • 2. Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MN-UFRJ), Departamento de Invertebrados. Quinta da Boa vista, s / n, CEP 20940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. & Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, CEP 22460 - 030, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
  • 3. Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 20560 Washington, D. C., USA. cristianacbranco @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7166 - 183 X
  • 4. Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MN-UFRJ), Departamento de Invertebrados. Quinta da Boa vista, s / n, CEP 20940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. & Carolline. Pequeno @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3635 - 9683
  • 5. Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MN-UFRJ), Departamento de Invertebrados. Quinta da Boa vista, s / n, CEP 20940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Description

Genus Dactylocalyx Stutchbury, 1841

Diagnosis. Dactylocalycidae with thick walls composed of dense network of irregularly branching and anastomosing tubules of small caliber (1 mm diameter), completely penetrating body wall and opening on both surfaces; body wall incompletely penetrated by deep round or oval holes or longitudinally oriented grooves 2-10 mm wide (Reiswig 2002a).

Notes

Published as part of Moser, Julia, Moraes, Fernando C., Castello-Branco, Cristiana, Pequeno, Carolline B. & Muricy, Guilherme, 2022, Manned submersible dives reveal a singular assemblage of Hexactinellida (Porifera) off the Amazon River mouth, Northern Brazil, pp. 105-130 in Zootaxa 5105 (1) on page 113, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5105.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/6332297

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References

  • Stutchbury, S. (1841) Description of a new sponge from Barbados. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, 9, 86 - 87.
  • Reiswig, H. (2002 a) Family Dactylocalycidae. In: Hooper, J. & van Soest, R. (Eds.), Systema Porifera: A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York, New York, pp. 1293 - 1300. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 1 - 4615 - 0747 - 5 _ 134