Subclass HEXASTEROPHORA Schulze, 1886

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hexasterophora Schulze, F.E. 1886. Ueber den Bau und des System der Hexactinelliden. Abhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin 1886: 1-97.
• Aulocalycoida Tabachnick, K.R. & Levi, C. 2000. Porifera Hexactinellida: Amphidiscophora off New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 184: 53-140.
• Hexactinosida Schrammen, 1903.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Van Soest, R.W.M., Boury-Esnault, N., Hooper, J.N.A., Rützler, K., de Voogd, N.J., Alvarez, B., Hajdu, E., Pisera, A.B., Manconi, R., Schönberg, C., Klautau, M., Picton, B., Kelly, M., Vacelet, J., Dohrmann, M., Díaz, M.-C., Cárdenas, P., Carballo, J.L., Ríos, P. & Downey, R. 2018. World Porifera database. Hexasterophora. Accessed on 2018-03-22. http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=131590

Diagnosis

Basiphytous, rhizophytous or lophophytous Hexactinellida in which microscleres are mainly or all astral, typically hexasters; amphidiscs occur rarely as variants of discohexactins; choanosomal skeletons may consist of entirely loose spicules, sometimes irregularly joined by synapticulae or silica cement at contact points, or of regularly fused hexactins forming a dictyonal framework; dictyonal nodes, where present, may be entirely simple or lychniscid (lantern nodes).

Diagnosis References

Reiswig, H. 2002. Class Hexactinellida Schmidt, 1870. pp. 1201-1202 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. [1202]

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