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Genus of sponges

Plakortis
An unidentified Plakortis species
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Homoscleromorpha
Order: Homosclerophorida
Family: Plakinidae
Genus: Plakortis
Schulze, 1880
Type species
Plakortis simplex
Schulze, 1880
Synonyms

Placortis (misspelling)
Roosa de Laubenfels, 1934

Plakortis is a genus of marine sponges in the order Homosclerophorida, first described by Franz Eilhard Schulze in 1880.

Description

Plakortis sponges are characterised by having:

  1. inorganic (spicular) skeletal complement
  2. Skeleton composed mainly of diods, triods, and/or calthrops in one size class
  3. Lophose diods, triods, or calthrops complement the main skeleton of non-lophose spicules
  4. no lophose spicules
  5. diactinal "microscleres" (microrhabs) in some species

Species

List of accepted species:

Literature

Chemical and medecinal properties

References

  1. ^ Van Soest RW, Boury-Esnault N, Hooper JN, Rützler K, de Voogd NJ, de Glasby BA, Hajdu E, Pisera AB, Manconi R, Schoenberg C, Janussen D, Tabachnick KR, Klautau M, Picton B, Kelly M, Vacelet J (eds.). "Plakortis Schulze, 1880". World Porifera database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  2. Schulze, F.E. (1880). "Untersuchungen über den Bau und die Entwicklung der Spongien. Neunte Mittheilung. Die Plakiniden". Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie. 34 (2): 407-451 .
  3. "Australian Faunal Directory: Plakinidae". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
Taxon identifiers
Plakortis


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