Clathrina aurea

Short description: Species of sponge

Clathrina aurea

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Porifera
Class:  | Calcarea
Order:  | Clathrinida
Family:  | Clathrinidae
Genus:  | Clathrina
Species:  |

C. aurea

Binomial name
Clathrina aurea

Solé-Cava, Klautau, Boury-Esnault, Borojevic and Thorpe, 1991

Clathrina aurea is a species of calcareous sponge from Brazil. Specimens of this species were previously misidentified with Clathrina clathrus[1]

## Description

Cormus formed of large, irregular and loosely anastomosed tubes with many oscula. Water-collecting tubes are absent. Living specimens have a yellow cormus, which becomes white after preservation in ethanol. The skeleton has no special organisation and it is composed of only equiangular and equiradiate triactines. Actines are cylindrical and slightly undulated near the tip, which is rounded.[2]

## References

1. ↑ Solé-Cava; Klautau; Boury-Esnault; Borojevic; Thorpe (1991). "Genetic evidence for cryptic speciation in allopatric populations of two cosmopolitan species of the calcareous sponge genus Clathrina". Marine Biology 111 (3): 381–386. doi:10.1007/bf01319410.
2. ↑ Lanna, Emílio; Rossi, André Linhares; Cavalcanti, Fernanda F.; Hajdu, Eduardo; Klautau, Michelle (3 December 2007). "Calcareous sponges from São Paulo State, Brazil (Porifera: Calcarea: Calcinea) with the description of two new species". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK 87 (6): 1553–1561. doi:10.1017/S0025315407056871. Bibcode: 2007JMBUK..87.1553L.

World Register of Marine Species entry

Wikidata ☰ Q2223285 entry

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