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Hamacantha

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Hamacantha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Merliida
Family: Hamacanthidae
Genus: Hamacantha
(Gray, 1867)
Type species
Hamacantha johnsoni
(Bowerbank, 1864)
Subgenera and species

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Synonyms[1]
  • Athnacama de Laubenfels, 1936
  • Crellancistra de Laubenfels, 1936
  • Evomerula de Laubenfels, 1936
  • Hypsispongia de Laubenfels, 1935
  • Vomerula Schmidt, 1880

Hamacantha is a genus of sponges in the family Hamacanthidae. This species in this genus differ from those in the other genera in this family through the presence of diancistras, distinctive microscleres.[2] These are thought to aid in framing the skeleton by joining monactine megascleres (that is megascleres that grow in only a single direction).[3] This genus contains 30 species in three subgenera.[4]

Species

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The following species are recognised:[4]

Subgenus Hamacantha (Hamacantha) (Gray, 1867)

  Subgenus Hamacantha (Vomerula) Schmidt, 1880

Subgenus Hamacantha (Zygherpe) (Laubenfels, 1932)

References

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  1. ^ "Hamacantha". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  2. ^ Uriz, María Jesús (1988). Deep-water sponges from the continental shelf and slope of Namibia (south-west Africa). Classes Hexactinellida and Demospongiae (PDF). CSIC-Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM).
  3. ^ Uriz, Maria J.; Turon, Xavier; Becerro, Mikel A. (2003), Müller, Werner E. G. (ed.), "Silica Deposition in Demosponges", Silicon Biomineralization: Biology — Biochemistry — Molecular Biology — Biotechnology, Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 163–193, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-55486-5_7, ISBN 978-3-642-55486-5, retrieved 2021-07-22
  4. ^ a b "Hamacantha". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 21 July 2021.