Strongylodesma Levi 1969
| Main Authors: | Samaai, Toufiek, Gibbons, Mark J., Kelly, Michelle, Davies-Coleman, Mike |
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| Format: | info publication-taxonomictreatment Journal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2003
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/6276869 |
Daftar Isi:
- Genus Strongylodesma Lévi 1969 Type species. Strongylodesma areolata Lévi, 1969: 959 Diagnosis. Spherical or semispherical Latrunculiidae with elevated volcanoshaped or cylindrical oscules and fungiform or concave elliptical areolate porefields. Colour in life brown to reddish brown. Choanosomal architecture consists of megascleres arranged in an irregular, largemeshed reticulation formed by wispy tracts of spicules, which lack spongin reinforcement. Ectosomal clear of microscleres, subectosomal skeleton is a clear thick band of collagenous mesohyal, the base of which is lined with a thin band of paratangential megascleres. Megascleres support the raised surface structures and may protrude beyond the surface. Megascleres are smooth, or terminally spined strongyles in one size category, microscleres are absent (modified from Samaai & Kelly, 2002).
- Published as part of Samaai, Toufiek, Gibbons, Mark J., Kelly, Michelle & Davies-Coleman, Mike, 2003, South African Latrunculiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida): descriptions of new species of Latrunculia du Bocage, Strongylodesma Lévi, and Tsitsikamma Samaai & Kelly, pp. 1-26 in Zootaxa 371 on page 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156901