Genus Kirkpatrickia Topsent, 1912

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Regional Maps

• Kirkpatrickia Topsent, E. 1912. Sur une grande Tedania abyssale des Açores (Tedania phacellina, n.sp.). Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco 252: 1-12 [3].

  Type species:

   Tedania variolosa Kirkpatrick, 1907 by subsequent designation, see Wiedenmayer, F. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994].

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Antarctic and Subantarctic.

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Flabellate or digitate; pores grouped in sieve-plates (areolae). Ectosomal skeleton composed of ectosomal strongylote tornotes or strongyles in tangential tracts and whispy brushes on the surface (the latter around pores). Choanosomal skeleton composed of loosely agglomerated primary and secondary fibres cored by choanosomal styles, curving out towards the surface in the peripheral skeleton. Megascleres choanosomal styles with smooth or spined bases microscleres are absent. Three or four species.

ID Keys

See Family Hymedesmiidae Diagnosis.

Diagnosis References

van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Hymedesmiidae Topsent, 1928. pp. 575-593 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. [584]

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