Aspiculortis, Ruiz & Ereskovsky & Perez, 2022

Ruiz, Cesar, Ereskovsky, Alexander & Perez, Thierry, 2022, New Skeleton-Less Homoscleromorphs (Porifera, Homoscleromorpha) From The Caribbean Sea: Exceptions To Rules Are Definitely Common In Sponge Taxonomy, Zootaxa 5200 (2), pp. 128-148 : 132

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5200.2.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E0D67501-60EB-43EA-BD3C-C6F9BB559DE7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7259230

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5404A05E-FFC2-B735-FF16-FDA5FDE3E07E

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Plazi

scientific name

Aspiculortis
status

gen. nov.

Aspiculortis View in CoL gen. nov.

Diagnosis: Plakinidae without spicules. Smooth pseudo-criblate surface covered by numerous ostia diverging soon under the epidermal surface in various inhalant canals. A network of superficial translucent much larger exhalant canals leading to prominent oscula. Well-developed mesohyl with several layers of vacuolar cells in the ectosome. No sub-ectosomal cavities. Leuconoid aquiferous system with diplodal choanocyte chambers. High abundance of prokaryotic symbionts in the mesohyl.

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