Phlyctaenopora Topsent 1904
- Dataset
- First record of genus Phlyctaenopora in South Pacific waters
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Porifera
- class
- Demospongiae
- order
- Poecilosclerida
- family
- Mycalidae
- genus
- Phlyctaenopora
diagnosis
Diagnosis. Massive, hemispherical, crustose, smooth with erect fistules; confused, compact choanosomal skeleton of ill-defined tracts of strongyles or oxeas; ectosomal skeleton a crust of oxeas and / or styles; microscleres include palmate anisochelae which may be basally spurred, sigmas, large plesiaster-like microxeas, and spined, amphiaster-like rhabds, the latter three may be absent (modified from Van Soest & Hajdu 2002).
type_taxon
Type species. P. bitorquis Topsent, 1904: 199; pl. 2, fig. 4 c (by monotypy).