Genus Heteropia Carter, 1886

Museums

Regional Maps

• Heteropia Carter, H.J. 1886. Report on the Porifera of the L.M.B.C. District. In Higgin, T. (ed.) Report upon the fauna of Liverpool Bay. Liverpool Mar. Biol. Comm. Reps. 1: 72–94. [94].

  Type species:

   Aphroceras ramosa Carter, 1886 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

NE Atlantic, Arctic, Japan, Indian Ocean and S Africa.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Heteropiidae with syconoid organisation, an articulated choanoskeleton, and where the cortical skeleton consists of longitudinal large diactines, with occasionally tangential triactines and perpendicular small diactines.

 

ID Keys

See Order Leucosolenida

 

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 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. [1177]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
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		23-Feb-2012	MODIFIED