Genus Uteopsis Dendy & Row, 1913

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• Uteopsis Dendy, A. & Row, R.W.H. 1913. The classification and phylogeny of the calcareous sponges, with a reference list of all the described species, systematically arranged. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1913: 704-813 [766].

  Type species:

   Ute argentea Poléjaeff, 1884 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burton, M. 1963. A Revision of the Classification of the Calcareous Sponges. London : British Museum pp. 1-693 figs 1-375. [530]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand and Indonesia (as for type species).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Jenkinidae with syconoid organisation. The cortex is thick and is supported by giant longitudinal diactines. The choanoskeleton is reduced to the unpaired actines of the subatrial spicules and smaller distal radial diactines.

 

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. [1174]

 

History of changes

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