Murrayonida

Murrayonida

Murrayonida

Order of sponges

The Murrayonida are an order of sea sponges in the subclass Calcinea.

Quick Facts Scientific classification, Families ...

Taxonomy

The order consists of four known species, in three families:

Family Murrayonidae Dendy & Row, 1913

  • Murrayona phanolepis Kirkpatrick, 1910 - discovered by C. W. Andrews on Christmas Island[1] and the species name proposed in honor of Sir John Murray, who financed the Christmas Island expedition, and the corresponding name was later given to the order.

Family Lelapiellidae Borojevic, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 1990

  • Lelapiella incrustans Vacelet, 1977
  • Lelapiella sphaerulifera Vacelet, 1977

Family Paramurrayonidae Vacelet, 1967

  • Paramurrayona corticata Vacelet, 1967

Description

Murrayonida are distinguished from other Calcinea by having a reinforced skeleton; like another line of Calcinea, the Leucettidae, but unlike most other Calcinea, the Murrayonida sponges also have a cortex covering the cormus and a leuconoid aquiferous system.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Kirkpatrick, R. (1910), "On a remarkable pharentronid sponge from Christmas Island", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character, 83 (562), The Royal Society: 124–133, doi:10.1098/rspb.1910.0070, JSTOR 80366.
  2. [2]
    Manuel, M. (2006), "Phylogeny and evolution of calcareous sponges", Canadian Journal of Zoology, 84 (2): 225–241, doi:10.1139/Z06-005.


Stub icon

This article about a calcareous sponge is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Murrayonida, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.