CALCINEA BIDDER, 1898

Klautau, Michelle & Valentine, Clare, 2003, Revision of the genus Clathrina (Porifera, Calcarea), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139 (1), pp. 1-62 : 4

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1046/j.0024-4082.2003.00063.x

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5490038

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D5484C-D41F-C35E-FEBD-FB51FCF2FA33

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Carolina

scientific name

CALCINEA BIDDER, 1898
status

 

SUBCLASS CALCINEA BIDDER, 1898 View in CoL

Diagnosis: Calcarea with regular (equiangular and equiradiate) or exceptionally parasagittal or sagittal triactines and a basal system of tetractines. In terms of ontogeny, triactines are the first spicules to be secreted. Choanocytes are basinucleate with spherical nuclei. The basal body of the flagellum is not adjacent to the nucleus. Calcinea incubate coeloblastula larvae.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Porifera

Class

Calcarea

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