Genus Aulocalyx Schulze, 1886
- Aulocalyx Schulze, F.E. 1886. Ueber den Bau und des System der Hexactinelliden. Abhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin 1886: 1-97 [56].
Type species:
Aulocalyx irregularis Schulze, 1886 by monotypy.
Distribution
Extra Distribution Information
Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean and West Indian region.
Distribution References
- Ijima, I. 1927. The Hexactinellida of the Siboga Expedition. 1-383 26 pls in Weber, M.W.C. (ed.). Siboga-Expeditie, livr. 106, monogr. 6. Leiden : J.E. Brill. [370]
- Lévi, C. 1964. Spongiaires des zones bathyale, abyssale et hadale. 63-112 pls 2-11 in Wolff, T. (ed.). Galathea Report. Scientific results of the Danish Deep-Sea Expedition Round the World, 1950–1952. Copenhagen : Danish Science Press Vol. 7. [108]
Diagnosis
Body attached to hard substrate by small basal disc with stony-hard skeleton; skeletal frame progressively softer and more flexible towards fragile distal end; framework unchannelised; dermalia and atrialia as rough pentactins; microscleres include rhopalasters, discohexasters, and sometimes oxyhexactins; uncinates and sceptrules are absent.
ID Keys
See Family Aulocalycidae Diagnosis.
Diagnosis References
Reiswig, H. 2002. Family Aulocalycidae Ijima, 1927. pp. 1362-1371 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1364]
History of changes
Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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| 29-Mar-2018 | 28-Feb-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 29-Mar-2018 | 15-Apr-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |