Genus Cladothenea Koltun, 1964

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cladothenea Koltun, V.M. 1964. Sponges of the Antarctic. Part 1. Tetraxonida and Cornacuspongida. 6-116, 428-433 (systematic index), pls 1-15 in Pavlovskii, E.P., Andriyashev, A.P. & Ushakov, P.V. (eds). Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Zoological Institute: Explorations of the fauna of the seas II (X). Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955–1958). Moscow : Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka' Vol. 2. [in Russian] [17].

  Type species:

   Cladothenea andriashevi Koltun, 1964 by monotypy.

Distribution

Diagnosis

Pachastrellidae with radial, protruding fascicles of oxeas and cladotyles. Long shafted tetraxons (i.e. dichotriaenes) occur at the periphery of the choanosome, with their rhabdome pointing toward the innermost part of the pseudospherical sponge body and the cladome reinforcing the ectosomal skeleton. Microscleres are streptasters in more than one category (i.e. plesiasters and amphiasters).

ID Keys

See Family Pachastrellidae Diagnosis.

Diagnosis References

Maldonado, M. 2002. Family Pachastrellidae Carter, 1875. pp. 141-162 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. [148]

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