Genus Cervicornia Rützler & Hooper, 2000
- Cervicornia Rützler, K. & Hooper, J. 2000. Two new genera of hadromerid sponges (Demospongea). Zoosystema 22(2): 337-344 [342].
Type species:
Alcyonium cuspidiferum Lamarck, 1815 by original designation.
Diagnosis
Clionaid sponges with large, smooth, inhalant fistulas protruding from the substratum and buried (endopsammic) choanosomal pulp. Exhalant stolons end underground. No alpha or beta stages are known. With large tylostyles arranged in dense tracts in the fistulas, without orientation in the choanosome. Small and rare spirasters and amphiasters located in ectosome and canal linings.
Diagnosis References
Rützler, K. 2002. Family Clionaidae D'Orbigny, 1851. pp. 173-185 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. [174]
History of changes
Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 10-Jan-2012 | ADDED |