New indications of the phylogenetic a nity of Spongosorites suberitoides Diaz et al., 1993 (Porifera, Demospongiae) as revealed by 28 S ribosomal DNA
Author
McCormack, Grace P.
Author
Kelly, Michelle
text
Journal of Natural History
2002
2010-12-03
36
9
1009
1021
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930110040394
journal article
4721
10.1080/00222930110040394
de86726c-229f-4a3e-bbb1-666cbf31369c
1464-5262
5301224
Family
SUBERITIDAE
Schmidt
Diagnosis (emended)
Massive, pedunculate or cup-shaped
Hadromerida
, frequently with membranous raised oscules, texture corky or waxy to the touch, typically displaying a range of coloration from cream to yellow, bright orange or red, frequently also green and blue. Megascleres are tylostyles and subtylostyles in two to three size categories, strongyloxea in one to two size categories, and occasionally oxea which may be centrotylote. Microscleres are absent. Megasclere architecture usually semi-radial with loosely structured anastomosing loose tracts of megascleres, almost always radial at the sponge surface where the ectosome is raised in vertical to fanning brushes of small megascleres, or strictly radiating from the base of the sponge. Reproduction is oviparous, some species gemmulate, one genus forms an association with hermit crabs.