Aaptos

Short description: Genus of sponges

Aaptos

Aaptos tenta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Porifera
Class:  | Demospongiae
Order:  | Suberitida
Family:  | Suberitidae
Genus:  | Aaptos
Gray, 1867 [1]
Synonyms

List

* Tethyophaena Schmidt, 1880
* Trachya Carter, 1870
* Tuberella Keller, 1880

Aaptos is a genus of sea sponges in the family Suberitidae.[1]

It was first described by John Edward Gray in 1867.[2][3]

## Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Aaptos:[1][4]

* Aaptos aaptos (Schmidt, 1864)
* Aaptos alphiensis Samaai & Gibbons, 2005
* Aaptos bergmanni de Laubenfels, 1950
* Aaptos ciliata (Wilson, 1925)
* Aaptos conferta Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1994
* Aaptos duchassaingi (Topsent, 1889)
* Aaptos durissima (Carter, 1882)
* Aaptos globosa Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1994
* Aaptos glutinans Moraes, 2011
* Aaptos hajdui Carvalho, da Silva & Pinheiro, 2013
* Aaptos horrida (Carter, 1886)
* Aaptos kanuux Lehnert, Hocevar & Stone, 2008
* Aaptos laxosuberites (Sollas, 1902)
* Aaptos lobata Calcinai, Bastari, Bertolino & Pansini, 2017
* Aaptos niger Hoshino, 1981
* Aaptos nuda (Kirkpatrick, 1903)
* Aaptos papillata (Keller, 1880)
* Aaptos pernucleata (Carter, 1870)
* Aaptos potiguarensis Carvalho, da Silva & Pinheiro, 2013
* Aaptos robustus Plotkin & Janussen, 2008
* Aaptos rosacea Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1994
* Aaptos suberitoides (Brøndsted, 1934)
* Aaptos tenta Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1994
* Aaptos vannamei de Laubenfels, 1935

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 World Register of Marine Species Retrieved August 25, 2012
2. ↑ "Australian Faunal Directory: Aaptos" (in en). https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Aaptos.
3. ↑ Gray, J.E. (1867). "Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the description of some new genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 492-558 pls 27-28 [519]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29533959.
4. ↑ Animal Diversity Retrieved August 25, 2012

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