Biology:Smenospongia

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Short description: Genus of sponges

Smenospongia
Scientific classification e
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.

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 arbuscula Sim, Lee & Kim, 2016
  • Smenospongia aurea (Hyatt, 1875)
  • Smenospongia cerebriformis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
  • Smenospongia conulosa Pulitzer-Finali, 1986
  • Smenospongia dokdoensis Sim, Lee & Kim, 2016
  • Smenospongia duokyeo Sim, Lee & Kim, 2016
  • Smenospongia dysodes (de Laubenfels, 1954)
  • Smenospongia echina (Laubenfels, 1934)
  • Smenospongia flavia Sim, Lee & Kim, 2016
  • Smenospongia gageoensis Sim, Lee & Kim, 2016
  • Smenospongia musicalis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
  • Smenospongia nigra Sim, Lee & Kim, 2016
  • Smenospongia nuda (Lévi, 1969)
  • Smenospongia ramosa Sandes & Pinheiro, 2014
  • Smenospongia scalaris Sim, Lee & Kim, 2016
  • Smenospongia spinulosa Sim, Lee & Kim, 2016
  • Smenospongia varispina Sim, Lee & Kim, 2016
  • Smenospongia wiedenmayeri Sim, Lee & Kim, 2016

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. "Smenospongia". World Porifera database. World Register of Marine Species. 2018. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=165384. 

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