Asbestopluma Topsent 1901
- Dataset
- Carnivorous sponges from the Australian Bathyal and Abyssal zones collected during the RV Investigator 2017 Expedition
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Porifera
- class
- Demospongiae
- order
- Poecilosclerida
- family
- Cladorhizidae
- genus
- Asbestopluma
diagnosis
Diagnosis. Cladorhizidae with at least one small category of palmate isochelae, in a few cases modified to anchorate unguiferate, anisochelae. Usually with a second larger type of palmate to arcuate anisochelae that may in some cases be modified to isochelae, anisoplacochela or tridentate anchorate chela. Sigmancistras and basal acantho (sub) (tylo) styles are also present with a few exceptions. Never forceps spicules (from Hestetun et al. 2016 b).
type_taxon
Type species. Cladorhiza pennatula (Schmidt, 1875) (by subsequent designation, Topsent 1901).