Genus Petromica Topsent, 1898

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Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• List-Armitage, S.E. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Discovery of Petrmica Topsent in the Pacific Ocean: a revision of the genus with a new subgenus (Chaladesma, subgen. nov.) and a new species (P.(C.) pacifica, sp. nov.) (Porifera: Demospongiae: Halichondrida: Halichondriidae). Invertebrate Systematics 16(5): 813-835 [818]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

Massive sponges with irregular monocrepid desmas (some without a visible crepis) which are branched in all planes; smooth except at tips; and poorly articulated or non-articulated at all; other megascleres are large, usually bent, oxeas, strongyloxeas and anisorhabds. No microscleres.

ID Keys

See Family Desmanthidae Diagnosis.

Diagnosis References

Pisera, A. & Lévi, C. 2002. Family Desmanthidae Topsent, 1893. pp. 356-362 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. [359]

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