Amphimedon Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864

Santos, George Garcia, Docio, Loyana & Pinheiro, Ulisses, 2014, Two new species of the family Niphatidae van Soest, 1980 from Northeastern Brazil (Haplosclerida: Demospongiae: Porifera), Zootaxa 3774 (3), pp. 265-274 : 266

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scientific name

Amphimedon Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
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Genus Amphimedon Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 View in CoL

Definition: Niphatidae with an optically smooth surface, regular tangential ectosomal network with rounded meshes of a single size. Ends of choanosomal longitudinal primary fibers barely protruding. Spongin abundant. Microscleres absent ( Desqueyroux-Faúndez & Valentine 2002).

Type species: Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (by subsequent designation, de Laubenfels 1936).

Desqueyroux-Faundez, R. & Valentine, C. (2002) Family Niphatidae van Soest, 1980. In: Hooper, J. N. A. & van Soest, R. W. M. (Eds.), Systema Porifera: A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York, pp. 874 - 890.

Duchassaing De Fonbressin, P. & Michelotti, G. (1864) Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem, 21 (2). 1 - 124, pls I - XXV.

De Laubenfels, M. W. (1936) A discussion of the sponge fauna of the Dry Tortugas in particular and the West Indies in general, with material for a revision of the families and orders of the Porifera. Carnegie Institute of Washington (Tortugas Laboratory paper No. 467), 30, 1 - 225.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Porifera

Class

Demospongiae

Order

Haplosclerida

Family

Niphatidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Porifera

Class

Demospongiae

Order

Haplosclerida

Family

Niphatidae