Petrosaspongia Bergquist, 1995

Uriz, María - Jesús & Cebrian, Emma, 2006, Presence of the Indo – Pacific genus Petrosaspongia Bergquist, 1995 (Porifera: Demospongiae) in the Atlantic with description of a new species (P. pharmamari n. sp.), Zootaxa 1209, pp. 61-68 : 62-63

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.172425
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6494287
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scientific name	Petrosaspongia Bergquist, 1995
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Genus Petrosaspongia Bergquist, 1995 View in CoL

Definition: Unarmoured Thorectinae with a dense secondary fibre reticulum rendering these sponges hard and incompressible. Very thin fibres, which seem to correspond to a tertiary network, are present in some places. Slightly modified from Cook and Bergquist (2002)

Type species: Petrosaspongia nigra Bergquist, 1995 by monotypy.