Genus Psammastra Sollas, 1886
- Psammastra Sollas, W.J. 1886. Preliminary account of the tetractinellid sponges dredged by H.M.S. Challenger, 1872–1876. Part 1. The Choristida. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society ns 5: 177-199 [195].
Type species:
Sollas murrayi Sollas, 1886 by monotypy.
Distribution
States
Tasmania
IMCRA
Southeast Shelf Transition (37)
Diagnosis
Sponges characterized by a conulose surface, thick collagenrich, cortex often completely encrusted with thin sediment, oxeas and triaenes with short clads as megascleres, and spiny microrhabds and from one to several types of euasters as microscleres. Trichodragmata may be present.
Diagnosis References
Uriz, M. J. 2002. Family Ancorinidae, 1870. pp. 108-126 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. [120]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 12-Jan-2012 | ADDED |