Swartschewskia Makushok, 1927

Bukshuk, Natalia A. & Maikova, Olga O., 2020, A new species of Baikal endemic sponges (Porifera, Demospongiae, Spongillida, Lubomirskiidae), ZooKeys 906, pp. 113-130 : 113

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.906.39534

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scientific name

Swartschewskia Makushok, 1927
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Genus Swartschewskia Makushok, 1927 View in CoL

Included species.

Swartschewskia papyracea (Dybowski, 1880), Swartschewskia irregularis (Swartschewsky, 1902).

Type species.

Swartschewskia papyracea (Dybowski, 1880).

Genus diagnosis.

Body shape encrusting to globose or branched. Ectosomal skeleton hard and well developed as more or less regular alveolar network of thick tangential spicular fibres. Choanosomal skeleton sparsely developed with scarce spicules irregularly arranged in few weak fibres. Abundant spongin. Megascleres strongyles, from spiny to smooth (modified from Manconi and Pronzato 2002).