Neopetrosia

Neopetrosia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Haplosclerida
Suborder: Petrosina
Family: Petrosiidae
Genus: Neopetrosia
Type species
Haliclona longleyi
de Laubenfels, 1932
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • Densa de Laubenfels, 1934

Neopetrosia is a genus of marine petrosiid sponges. It was first established by the American spongiologist Max Walker de Laubenfels in 1932. It contains these 27 species:[1]

  • Neopetrosia carbonaria (Lamarck, 1814)
  • Neopetrosia chaliniformis (Thiele, 1899)
  • Neopetrosia compacta (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
  • Neopetrosia contignata (Thiele, 1899)
  • Neopetrosia cylindrica (Lamarck, 1815)
  • Neopetrosia delicatula (Dendy, 1905)
  • Neopetrosia densissima (Wilson, 1904)
  • Neopetrosia dominicana (Pulitzer-Finali, 1986)
  • Neopetrosia exigua (Kirkpatrick, 1900)
  • Neopetrosia granulosa (Wilson, 1925)
  • Neopetrosia halichondrioides Dendy, 1905
  • Neopetrosia massa (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
  • Neopetrosia perforata (Lévi, 1959)
  • Neopetrosia problematica (de Laubenfels, 1930)
  • Neopetrosia proxima (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
  • Neopetrosia rava (Thiele, 1899)
  • Neopetrosia retiderma (Dendy, 1922)
  • Neopetrosia rosariensis (Zea & Rützler, 1983)
  • Neopetrosia sapra (de Laubenfels, 1954)
  • Neopetrosia seriata (Hentschel, 1912)
  • Neopetrosia similis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
  • Neopetrosia subtriangularis (Duchassaing, 1850)
  • Neopetrosia tenera (Carter, 1887)
  • Neopetrosia truncata (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
  • Neopetrosia tuberosa (Dendy, 1922)
  • Neopetrosia vanilla (de Laubenfels, 1930)
  • Neopetrosia zumi (Ristau, 1978)

References

  1. 1 2 Rob van Soest (2013). 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. "Neopetrosia de Laubenfels, 1949". World Porifera database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved September 25, 2013.


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