Sycortis sycilloides Schuffner 1877
- Dataset
- Calcareous sponges of the Western Indian Ocean and Red Sea
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Porifera
- class
- Calcarea
- order
- Leucosolenida
- family
- Sycettidae
- genus
- Sycortis
- species
- Sycortis sycilloides
Sycortis sycilloides Schuffner 1877
Sycortis sycilloides Schuffner, 1877
This Mauritius species is discussed above as a possible junior synonym of Sycettusa stauridia (Haeckel, 1872). It has similar habitus (two coalescent small tubular individuals), but it has the unpaired actines of the subatrial triactines much longer and thicker (600– 1000 x 80 µm) than Haeckel’s and ours, which measure only 400 x 10–20 µm.
Name
- Homonyms
- Sycortis sycilloides Schuffner 1877