Higginsia Higgin, 1877

Samaai, Toufiek, Pillay, Ruwen & Janson, Liesl, 2019, Shallow-water Demospongiae (Porifera) from Sodwana Bay, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa, Zootaxa 4587 (1), pp. 1-85 : 50

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4587.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CC6CDA5A-E283-49AD-9F31-CE95C123A379

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/224C879C-2B46-FFC4-FF08-8F27FBBF64CC

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Plazi

scientific name

Higginsia Higgin, 1877
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Genus Higginsia Higgin, 1877

Definition. Sinuous raphidiform ectosomal oxeas/ styles protruding through the surface in sparse plumose bundles, supported by long sinuous extra-axial styles in sparse plumose tracts, embedded in a choanosomal skeleton of variable structure (halichondroid to axially compressed) composed of choanosomal oxeas in bundles, with coarsely spined centrangulate microxeas tangential and below the surface (not forming a crust).

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