Revision of the genus Clathrina (Porifera, Calcarea)
Author
Klautau, Michelle
Author
Valentine, Clare
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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2003
2003-09-30
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https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1046/j.0024-4082.2003.00063.x
journal article
10.1046/j.0024-4082.2003.00063.x
0024-4082
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SUBCLASS
CALCINEA
BIDDER, 1898
Diagnosis:
Calcarea
with regular (equiangular and equiradiate) or exceptionally parasagittal or sagittal triactines and a basal system of tetractines. In terms of ontogeny, triactines are the first spicules to be secreted. Choanocytes are basinucleate with spherical nuclei. The basal body of the flagellum is not adjacent to the nucleus.
Calcinea
incubate coeloblastula larvae.