Vetulina
Appearance
Vetulina | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Porifera |
Class: | Demospongiae |
Order: | Sphaerocladina Schrammen, 1924[1] |
Family: | Vetulinidae Lendenfeld, 1903 |
Genus: | Vetulina Schmidt, 1879 |
Species | |
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Vetulina is a genus of sea sponges in the subclass Heteroscleromorpha. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Vetulinidae and the monotypic order Sphaerocladina.[2]
Species
[edit]There are three species recognised within the genus:
- Vetulina indica Pisera, Łukowiak, Fromont & Schuster, 2017
- Vetulina rugosa Pisera, Łukowiak, Fromont & Schuster, 2017
- Vetulina stalactites Schmidt, 1879
References
[edit]- ^ Schrammen, A. 1924. Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland. III. und letzter Teil. Monographien zur Geologie und Paläontologie (1) Heft 2: 1-159, I-XVII.
- ^ van Soest, R. (2015). Sphaerocladina. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Díaz, M.-C.; Cárdenas, P.; Carballo, J. L. (2016). World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2017-02-17.
External links
[edit]- Data related to Vetulina at Wikispecies