Genus Synute Dendy, 1892

Museums

Regional Maps

• Synute Dendy, A. 1892. Preliminary account of Synute pulchella, a new genus and species of calcareous sponges. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 4: 1-6 [1].

  Type species:

   Synute pulchella Dendy, 1892 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Diagnosis

Grantiidae with a cormus composed entirely of fused syconoid units and surrounded by a common cortex with a special skeleton containing giant longitudinal diactines (Dendy 1892b).

ID Keys

See Order Leucosolenida Diagnosis

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 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. [1165]

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