Family BAERIIDAE Borojevic, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 2000

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• Baeriidae Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N. & Vacelet, J. 2000. A revision of the supraspecific classification of the subclass Calcaronea (Porifera, Class Calcarea). Zoosystema 22(2): 203-263.
• Leuconidae Vosmaer, G.C.J. 1887. Porifera. In Bronn, H.G. Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thierreichs 2: i-xii 1-496 pls 1-34 [373] [invalid name; preoccupied].
• Leuconiinae Laubenfels, M.W. de 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. (Tortugas Lab. Paper No. 467). Publication of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Washington 30: 1-225 22 pls 1 map.

Introduction

Baeriidae contains five nominal genera of which four are considered valid: Leuconia Grant (with junior synonym Baeria Miklucho-Maclay), Eilhardia Poléjaeff, Lamontia Kirk, and Leucopsila Dendy & Row. The family was recently revised and summarised by Borojevic et al. (2002).

Diagnosis

Baeriidae in which the choanoskeleton consists of giant triactines and/or tetractines, lying without apparent order, and of very numerous microdiactines. A cavity equivalent to the atrium, localised only under the oscula, has a skeleton supported by tangential triactines. All the other exhalant canals have a skeleton composed of harpoon-shaped pugioles.

ID Keys

See Diagnosis for Order Baerida

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Baerida Borojevic, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 2000. pp. 1193-1200 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. [1194]

General References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Baerida Borojevic, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 2000. pp. 1193-1200 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. (1194)

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