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Rützler, K.; Hooper, J.N.A. (2000). Two new genera of Hadromerid sponges (Porifera, Demospongiae). Zoosystema. 22(2) : 337-344.
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Rützler, K.; Hooper, J.N.A.
2000
Two new genera of Hadromerid sponges (Porifera, Demospongiae).
Zoosystema
22(2) : 337-344
Publication
Revision of families in the order Hadromerida (Porifera, Demospongiae)
makes it necessary to establish two new genera. In the family Placospongiidae, the genus Amphinolana is introduced for a new species, A. claudelevii, from the Great Barrier Reef, Australian West Pacific. It is the second genus in the family and distinguished by the presence of cortical and choanosomal, dumbbell-shaped sterrasters which derive from an amphiaster-like microsclere and are termed amphinolasters. The other spicules of Amphinolana claudelevii
include small microspined spirasters and the usual megascleres (tylostyles). In the family Clionidae, the genus Cervicornia is named to accommodate Alcyonium cuspidiferum Lamarck, previously placed in Spirastrella and Spheciospongia. This genus is separated from other clionids by large (up to 30 cm tall), ectosomal inhalant fistules and a pulp-like endopsammic choanosome. Cervicornia cuspidifera generates an unusual flow-direction of water which is taken in through its epibenthic, blind-ending fistules and exhaled through the coarse sand substrate.
Caribbean region
Pacific, Tropical (E + W together or without specification)
Pacific, Tropical (E + W together or without specification)
Systematics, Taxonomy
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Amphinolana Rützler & Hooper, 2000 accepted as Onotoa de Laubenfels, 1955 (original description)
Amphinolana claudelevii Rützler & Hooper, 2000 accepted as Onotoa claudelevii (Rützler & Hooper, 2000) (original description)
Cervicornia Rützler & Hooper, 2000 (original description)
Cervicornia cuspidifera (Lamarck, 1815) (basis of record)
Amphinolana claudelevii Rützler & Hooper, 2000 accepted as Onotoa claudelevii (Rützler & Hooper, 2000) (original description)
Cervicornia Rützler & Hooper, 2000 (original description)
Cervicornia cuspidifera (Lamarck, 1815) (basis of record)
Central and Southern Great Barrier Reef for Amphinolana claudelevii Rützler & Hooper, 2000
Holotype USNM 51356, geounit Central and Southern Great Barrier Reef, identified as Amphinolana claudelevii Rützler & Hooper, 2000
English staghorn sponge for Cervicornia Rützler & Hooper, 2000
English staghorn sponge for Cervicornia cuspidifera (Lamarck, 1815)
Nomenclature
The genus name was misspelled as Cerviconia in the combination Cerviconia cuspidifera by Rützler & Hooper (2000: ... [details]