Genus Pararete Ijima, 1927

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Regional Maps

• Pararete Ijima, I. 1927. The Hexactinellida of the Siboga Expedition. 1-383 26 pls in Weber, M.W.C. (ed.). Siboga-Expeditie, livr. 106, monogr. 6. Leiden : J.E. Brill. [178].

  Type species:

   Eurete farreopsis Carter, 1877 by original designation.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3)

Diagnosis

Tubular euretids with framework including rectangularmeshed primary layers and triangular-meshed secondary layers of varying thickness; narrow diarhyses-like channels may be present but epirhyses are absent; dictyonal nodes usually swollen and tubercled; dermalia and atrialia are pentactins; other megascleres include tylo- or claviscopules (club-tipped tines) and large barbed uncinates, usually accompanied by a smaller size uncinate with brackets but without barbs; microscleres consist of small discohexasters with sigmoid secondary rays and oxyhexactins often attached to framework but also as free parenchymalia; oxyhexasters are not present.

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. [1315]

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