Genus Eurete Semper, 1868

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Regional Maps

• Eurete Semper, C. 1868. Holothurien. Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen 1: 1-288, pls 1-40 [30].

  Type species:

   Eurete simplicissimum Semper, 1868 by monotypy.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3)

Diagnosis

Tubular elements of a branching and anastomosing stock bear terminal oscula and sometimes accessory lateral oscula nearly flush with the wall surface; dictyonal framework is three-dimensional throughout, consisting of several dictyonal layers at the distal margins of the growing tubes. Framework meshes basically rectangular but often subdivided to triangular shape. Beams usually smooth but occasionally slightly microspined; nodes usually unswollen but sometimes slightly swollen; microspined spurs as free rays of peripheral dictyonalia; dermalia and atrialia as pentactins; scopules and uncinates present; oxyhexasters are the only microscleres.

Diagnosis References

Reiswig, H. & Wheeler, B. 2002. Family Euretidae Zittel, 1877. pp. 1301-1331 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. [1308]

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