Cervicornia, Rützler & Hooper, 2000
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5400184 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8B319360-E71D-FFC8-FB1D-FBBC3855CBAF |
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Marcus |
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scientific name |
Cervicornia |
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gen. nov. |
Cervicornia View in CoL n. gen.
TYPE SPECIES. — Alcyonium cuspidiferum Lamarck, 1815: 168 by present designation.
ETYMOLOGY. —The name is composed of cervus m. (Latin: dear, stag) and cornu n. (Latin: horn) to express the resemblance to staghorn and staghorn coral Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck) . Lamarck himself com- pared the appearance of this sponge to inverted stalactites (Topsent 1933: 41).
DIAGNOSIS. — Clionidae with large, exposed inhalant fistules and cryptic (endopsammic) choanosomal pulp with exhalant stolons ending underground; with large tylostyles in dense tracts in the fistules, disorganized in the choanosome, and small, rare spirasters and amphiasters in ectosome and canal linings.
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