Rhizaxinella Keller, 1880
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.183878 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6235807 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E887DC-5E75-FFA7-5EC9-17F5FEC6AF44 |
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Plazi |
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Genus Rhizaxinella Keller, 1880
Diagnosis (sensu van Soest 2002):
Pedunculate sponges, with spherical, ovoid or cylindrical body carried on a simple or ramified stalk, normally attached to the substrate by a root system; usually an apical oscule. Body with a moreorless radial skeleton and with brushes of spicules at the surface, skeleton of the stalk a tightly packed mass of aligned megascleres, bound by spongin. Megascleres are tylostyles of different sizes with raphides in trichodragmas.
Type species: Rhizaxinella clavigera Keller, 1880 (by monotypy) = junior synonym of Alcyonium pyrifera delle Chiaje, 1828.
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