Genus Aplysinella Bergquist, 1980

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• Aplysinella Bergquist, P.R. 1980. A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida (Class Demospongiae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 7: 443-503 figs 1-25 pls [496].

  Type species:

   Aplysinella stongylata Bergquist, 1980 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

Aplysinellidae with differential pigmentation in life between surface and interior, fibres of characteristic construction having both bark and pith components, the latter being dominant, and fibre skeleton augmented by strongylote fibrous spicules. The spicules are composed only of bark and have a clear axial canal.

ID Keys

See Family Aplysinellidae Diagnosis.

Diagnosis References

Bergquist, P.R. & Cook, S.D.C. 2002. Family Aplyinellidae Bergquist, 1980. pp. 1094-1096 in Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera: A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 1. [1095]

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