Petrosaspongia Bergquist 1995

Genus Petrosaspongia Bergquist, 1995 Definition: Unarmoured Thorectinae with a dense secondary fibre reticulum rendering these sponges hard and incompressible. Very thin fibres, which seem to correspond to a tertiary network, are present in some places. Slightly modified from Cook and Bergquist (2002) Type species: Petrosaspongia nigra Bergquist, 1995 by monotypy.

Published as part of Uriz, María - Jesús & Cebrian, Emma, 2006, Presence of the Indo – Pacific genus Petrosaspongia Bergquist, 1995 (Porifera: Demospongiae) in the Atlantic with description of a new species (P. pharmamari n. sp.), pp. 61-68 in Zootaxa 1209 on pages 62-63, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172425

Keywords

Dictyoceratida, Thorectidae, Animalia, Demospongiae, Biodiversity, Petrosaspongia, Taxonomy, Porifera

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