Clathrina jorunnae
Clathrina jorunnae is a species of calcareous sponge from Norway. The species is named after Jorunn Berg, Hans Rapp's grandmother, who introduced Rapp to marine animals.
| Clathrina jorunnae | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Calcarea |
| Order: | Clathrinida |
| Family: | Clathrinidae |
| Genus: | Clathrina |
| Species: | C. jorunnae |
| Binomial name | |
| Clathrina jorunnae Rapp, 2006 | |
Description
Cormus composed of very thin and highly irregularly and loosely anastomosing tubes. No oscula are visible on the surface. Water-collecting tubes are absent. Colour light beige when alive and white in alcohol. The surface of the tubes minutely hispid due to single actines of the triactines irregularly protruding through the outer surface. The texture is fragile but compressible. Cormus 8 mm in diameter. Skeleton composed of one group of equiangular and equiradiate triactines. The actines are straight, conical and sharply pointed.[1]
References
World Register of Marine Species entry
- Rapp, Hans Tore. "Calcareous sponges of the genera Clathrina and Guancha (Calcinea, Calcarea, Porifera) of Norway (north-east Atlantic) with the description of five new species". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 147 (3): 331–365. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00221.x.
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