Smenospongia

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Smenospongia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Dictyoceratida
Family: Thorectidae
Subfamily: Thorectinae
Genus:Smenospongia
Wiedenmayer, 1977
Type species
Aplysina aurea
Hyatt, 1875

Smenospongia is a genus of demosponges in the family Thorectidae.

Demosponge A class of sponges in the phylum Porifera with spongin or silica spicules

Demosponges are the most diverse class in the phylum Porifera. They include 76.2% of all species of sponges with nearly 8,800 species worldwide. They are sponges with a soft body that covers a hard, often massive skeleton made of calcium carbonate, either aragonite or calcite. They are predominantly leuconoid in structure. Their "skeletons" are made of spicules consisting of fibers of the protein spongin, the mineral silica, or both. Where spicules of silica are present, they have a different shape from those in the otherwise similar glass sponges.

Thorectidae family of sponges

Thorectidae is a family of sea sponges in the order Dictyoceratida.

Twelve new species of Korean Smenospongia were described in 2016. [1] As of November 2018, the World Porifera database accepted the following species of Smenospongia: [2]

Smenospongia aurea is a species of sea sponge in the class Demospongiae. The scientific name of the species was first validly published in 1875 by Alpheus Hyatt, as Aplysina aurea.

Smenospongia echina is a species of sea sponge in the class Demospongiae. The scientific name of the species was first validly published in 1934 by Max Walker de Laubenfels, as Polyfibrospongia echina.

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References

  1. ↑ Sim, Chung Ja; Lee, Kyung Jin; Kim, Young A (29 February 2016). "Twelve new species of two genera Smenospongia and Cacospongia (Demospongia: Dictyoceratida: Thorectidae) from Korea". Journal of Species Research. 5 (1): 31–48. doi: 10.12651/jsr.2016.5.1.031 .
  2. ↑ Van Soest RW, Boury-Esnault N, Hooper JN, Rützler K, de Voogd NJ, de Glasby BA, Hajdu E, Pisera AB, Manconi R, Schoenberg C, Janussen D, Tabachnick KR, Klautau M, Picton B, Kelly M, Vacelet J, eds. (2018). "Smenospongia". World Porifera database. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 2018-11-28.


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