Genus Tethyopsis Stewart, 1870

Museums

Regional Maps

• Monosyringa Brøndsted, H.V. 1924. Sponges from New Zealand. Part I. In Mortensen, T. (ed.) Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition, 1914–16. XXIII. Vidensk. Meddr. Dansk Naturh. Foren. Kbh. 77: 435–483. [442].

  Type species:

   Monosyringa mortenseni Brøndsted, 1924 by original designation.
• Tethyopsis Stewart, C. 1870. On a new sponge, Tethyopsis columnifer. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 10: 281-282 [281].

  Type species:

   Tethyopsis columnifer Stewart, 1870 by monotypy.

Distribution

Diagnosis

Globular sponge with a four- to six ducts tube, with exhalant and inhalant (?) functions. Sponge body with a radiately arranged skeleton. Megascleres are oxeas and orthotriaenes to plagiotriaenes in the sponge body and modified orthotriaenes with a clad much longer than the other two, or orthodiaenes (also with a clad much longer than the other one). Microscleres are chiasters to spherochiasters and oxyasters. Orthodragmata may be present. Sanidasters are absent.

ID Keys

See Family Ancorinidae Diagnosis.

Diagnosis References

Uriz, M. J. 2002. Family Ancorinidae, 1870. pp. 108-126 in Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera: A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 1. [112]

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