Genus Plocamionida Topsent, 1927

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• Plocamionida Topsent, E. 1927. Diagnoses d'Eponges nouvelles recueillies par le Prince Albert Ier de Monaco. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco 502: 1-19 [16].

  Type species:

   Microciona ambigua Bowerbank, 1866 by subsequent designation, see Burton, M. 1935. The family Plocamiidae, with descriptions of four new genera of sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 15: 399-404 [401].

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

NE Atlanctic Ocean, S Africa and Antarctic.

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Encrusting. Ectosomal skeleton contains paratangential brushes of tornotes. Choanosomal skeleton with hymedesmioid architecture, with long smooth styles erect on the substrate, singly or in bundles, and protruding through the surface. Long acanthostyles and short acanthostrongyles forming a reticulate basal skeleton, and also short echinating acanthostyles erect on the substrate and clustered around the bases of the long spicules; microscleres are arcuate isochelae. Three or four species.

ID Keys

See Family Hymedesmiidae Diagnosis.

Diagnosis References

van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Hymedesmiidae Topsent, 1928. pp. 575-593 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. [590]

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