Sycute Dendy & Row, 1913

Borojevic, Radovan, Boury-Esnault, Nicole & Vacelet, Jean, 2000, A revision of the supraspecific classification of the subclass Calcaronea (Porifera, class Calcarea), Zoosystema 22 (2), pp. 203-263 : 222

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5392175

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5468344

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scientific name

Sycute Dendy & Row, 1913
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Genus Sycute Dendy & Row, 1913 View in CoL

TYPE SPECIES. — Sycon dendyi Kirk, 1895 by monotypy.

DIAGNOSIS. — Grantiidae with a syconoid organization. The cortex is supported by giant longitudinal diactines. The distal part of the choanocyte chambers is crowned by fascicles of radial diactines located between the longitudinal diactines.

DESCRIPTION

This genus has a single species. Like Sycon , it is characterized by tufts of diactines that decorate the distal cones of the radial tubes, and like Ute it has longitudinal cortical giant diactines.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Porifera

Class

Calcarea

Order

Leucosolenida

Family

Grantiidae

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