Tentorium Schmidt 1870 ...

• Main Authors: Plotkin, Alexander S., Janussen, Dorte
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Demospongiae; Hadromerida; Polymastiidae; Tentorium; Antarc*; Antarctic; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6235796; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6235796

Genus Tentorium Schmidt, 1870 Diagnosis (emended from Boury­Esnault 2002): Sponges are columnar or globular, protected by a dense cylindrical sheath of longitudinally placed principal spicules which form a solid imperforate layer. The cortical skeleton contains bundles of smaller spicules arranged in a palisade and is limited to the upper surface of the cylinder. Ostia are present on the upper surface. The oscula are at the tops of small papillae located on the upper surface. Spicules are subtylostyles and tylostyles. Type species: Thecophora semisuberites Schmidt, 1870 (by original designation). Tentorium papillatum (Kirkpatrick, 1908) (Figs. 10–11) Synonymy Suberites caminatus var. papillatus— Kirkpatrick 1908: 20 –21, pl. XV (16), pl. XVI (11–14). Suberites papillatus— Burton 1929: 445; 1932: 336. Suberites caminatus— Koltun 1964 (partly): 25, pl. IV (15–18). Tentorium caminatus— Koltun 1976 (partly): 168. Tentorium papillatum — Topsent 1917: 36, pl. IV(2); Boury­Esnault and van Beveren, 1982: 38 –39, pl. ... : Published as part of Plotkin, Alexander S. & Janussen, Dorte, 2008, Polymastiidae and Suberitidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) of the deep Weddell Sea, Antarctic *, pp. 95-135 in Zootaxa 1866 on pages 116-118, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183878 ...