Genus Eunapius Gray, 1867

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eunapius Gray, J.E. 1867. Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the description of some new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 492-558 pls 27-28 [552].

  Type species:

   Spongilla carteri Bowerbank, 1863 by subsequent designation, see Annandale, N. 1911. Freshwater sponges, hydroids and Polyzoa. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. London. [88].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Penney, J.T. & Racek, A.A. 1968. A comprehensive revision of a world-wide collection of freshwater sponges (Porifera: Spongillidae). Bulletin of the United States National Museum 272: 1-184 [21]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Spongillidae with body shape ranging from encrusting to bulbous, from flattish to lobate. Consistency of live sponges from fragile to moderately soft. Anisotropic choanosomal skeleton with pauci- to multispicular fibres and tracts. Medium amount of spongin. Megascleres smooth oxeas. Microscleres absent. Gemmules, single and scattered, subspherical, enveloped in cage of gemmular spicules. Gemmuloscleres smooth or spiny oxeas and strongyles.

ID Keys

See Family Spongillidae Diagnosis.

Diagnosis References

Manconi, R. & Pronzato, R. 2002. Suborder Spongillina subord. nov.: Freshwater sponges. pp. 921-1020 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. [940]

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