Genus Soleneiscus Borojevic, Boury-Esnault, Manuel & Vacelet, 2002

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External Links

• Soleneiscus Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Clathrinida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1141-1152 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. [replacement name].

  Type species:

   Leucosolenia stolonifer Dendy, 1891 (accepted as Soleneiscus stolonifer (Dendy, 1891)) by original designation.
• Soleneiscus Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N. & Vacelet, J. 1990. A revision of the supraspecific classification of the subclass Calcinea (Porifera, Class Calcarea). Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 4 12(A,2): 243-276 [junior homonym].

Distribution

States

Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

Soleneiscidae that grow in form of an individual ascon tube, with several ascon tubes growing upright from basal stolon-like tubes, or in the form of creeping, distally ramified but only rarely anastomosing tubes.

ID Keys

See Order Clathrinida Diagnosis

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Clathrinida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1141-1152 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. [1144]

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