Lerouxia Moret, 1926

Pisera, Andrzej, 2000, New species of lithistid sponges from the Paleogene of the Ukraine, Zoosystema 22 (2), pp. 285-298 : 292

Genus Lerouxia Moret, 1926

REMARKS

The new genus Lerouxia Moret has been included by this author into the newly established family Lerouxidae Moret, 1926 . There is, however, no difference either in choanosomal skeleton or in dermalia between Lerouxidae Moret and Theonellidae Lendenfeld , thus Lerouxidae are considered by me as a younger synonym of Theonellidae . The genus Lerouxia differs from Theonella in dermal phyllotriaenes which have rounded clads, in having large spherical articulation centres, as well as in irregular tetraclone desmas which have tuberculated apices.