Borojevia

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Borojevia
Esponja (Borojevia cerebrum), Parque natural de la Arrabida, Portugal, 2023-07-27, DD 47.jpg
Borojevia cerebrum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Calcarea
Order: Clathrinida
Family: Clathrinidae
Genus: Borojevia
Klautau, Azevedo, Cóndor-Luján, Rapp, Collins & Russo, 2013

Borojevia is a genus of calcareous sponge in the family Clathrinidae. The genus is named after sponge researcher Radovan Borojevic.

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Description

Calcinea in which the cormus comprises tightly anastomosed tubes. The skeleton contains regular (equiangular and equiradiate) triactines, tetractines and tripods. The apical actine of the tetractines has spines. Aquiferous system asconoid. [1]

Species

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References

  1. Klautau, M.; Azevedo, F.; Condor-Lujan, B.; Rapp, H. T.; Collins, A.; Russo, C. A. d. M. (23 May 2013). "A Molecular Phylogeny for the Order Clathrinida Rekindles and Refines Haeckel's Taxonomic Proposal for Calcareous Sponges". Integrative and Comparative Biology. 53 (3): 447–461. doi: 10.1093/icb/ict039 . PMID   23704365.

World Register of Marine Species entry