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Clathrina conifera

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Species of sponge

Clathrina conifera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Calcarea
Order: Clathrinida
Family: Clathrinidae
Genus: Clathrina
Species: C. conifera
Binomial name
Clathrina conifera
Klautau & Borojevic, 2001

Clathrina conifera is a species of calcareous sponge from Brazil. The species name refers to the cone-shaped appearance of the triactines.

Description

Cormus formed of large, irregular and loosely anastomosed tubes, white in life and beige when preserved. Water-collecting tubes are absent. The skeleton is composed only of triactines without any special organisation. They are equiradiate and equiangular. Actines are conical and straight with blunt tips.

References

  1. Klautau; Borojevic (2001). "Calcareous sponges from Arraial do Cabo-Brazil (1: the genus Clathrina)". Zoosystema. 23: 295–410.
  2. Lanna, Emílio; Rossi, André Linhares; Cavalcanti, Fernanda F.; Hajdu, Eduardo; Klautau, Michelle (3 December 2007). "Calcareous sponges from São Paulo State, Brazil (Porifera: Calcarea: Calcinea) with the description of two new species". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK. 87 (6): 1553–1561. Bibcode:2007JMBUK..87.1553L. doi:10.1017/S0025315407056871. S2CID 85668965.

World Register of Marine Species entry

Taxon identifiers
Clathrina conifera
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