Genus Artemisina Vosmaer, 1885

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• Artemisina Vosmaer, G.C.J. 1885. The sponges of the 'Willem Barents' expedition 1880 and 1881. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 12: 1–47 pls 1–5 [25].

  Type species:

   Artemisina suberitoides Vosmaer, 1885 (=Suberites arciger Schmidt, 1870) by monotypy.
• Qasimella Thomas, P.A. 1974. A new genus and species (Qasimella indica) from Indian seas. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India 16(1): 311-313 [311].

  Type species:

   Qasimella indica Thomas, 1974 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hooper, J.N.A. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994] [256]
• Hooper, J.N.A. 1996. Revision of Microcionidae (Porifera: Poecilosclerida: Demospongiae), with description of Australian species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 40: 1-626 [Date published 01/06/1996] [558]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Arctic, amphi-N Atlantic, N Pacific Ocean, West Indian region, New Zealand, Subantarctic and Antarctic.

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Massive, cushion-shaped, bulbous, clavulate, tubular, digitate and flabellate growth forms; without choanosomal fibres or indefinite fibres, whereas skeletal architecture consists of vaguely ascending longitudinal tracts of spicules bound by abundant collagen, cored by smooth choanosomal principal subtylostyles in a more-orless confused halichondroid reticulation of vaguely multispicular ascending and scattered transverse megascleres; echinating megascleres absent; subectosomal peripheral skeleton more radially arranged; ectosome membraneous, skin-like, with smooth styles of a single size category protruding through surface, forming paratangential or erect, discrete spicule bundles; microscleres palmate or arcuate isochelae and toxas with smooth or spined points.

ID Keys

See Family Microcionidae Diagnosis.

Diagnosis References

Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Microcionidae Carter, 1875. pp. 432-468 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. [463]

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