Scalarispongia Cook & Bergquist, 2000

Sandes, Joana, Muricy, Guilherme & Pinheiro, Ulisses, 2016, Thorectinae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Dictyoceratida) from Northeastern Brazil: two new species and transfer of Scalarispongia cincta (Boury-Esnault, 1973) to the genus Thorecta Lendenfeld, 1888, Zootaxa 4184 (1), pp. 158-170 : 161

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4184.1.10
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6085683
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scientific name	Scalarispongia Cook & Bergquist, 2000
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Genus Scalarispongia Cook & Bergquist, 2000 View in CoL

Definition. Unarmoured thorectids, with a regular, rectangular fiber skeleton of simple cored primary fibers and uncored secondary fibers that occasionally form light webbing. There is moderate collagen deposition in the mesohyl (from Cook, 2007).