Vosmaeropsis

Vosmaeropsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Calcarea
Order:	Leucosolenida
Family:	Heteropiidae
Genus:	Vosmaeropsis; Dendy, 1893

Vosmaeropsis is a genus of sponges in the family, Heteropiidae,^[1] and was first described in 1893 by Arthur Dendy.^[1]^[2] The type species by subsequent designation is Vosmaeropsis macera (Carter, 1886).^[3]

Distribution[]

GBIF with just 25 georeferenced specimens in this genus, shows it with an apparent world-wide distribution.^[4] The Australian Faunal Directory shows as being found on/off the coast of Victoria, and the coasts of north-west and south-west Western Australia.^[1]

Accepted species[]

(according to WoRMS)^[3]

Vosmaeropsis complanatispinifera Cavalcanti, Bastos & Lanna, 2015
(Poléjaeff, 1883)
(Verrill, 1873)
Dendy, 1893
Ferrer-Hernandez, 1916
Van Soest & De Voogd, 2018
Tanita, 1939
Ferrer Hernández, 1933
Borojevic & Klautau, 2000
Tanita, 1942
Hôzawa, 1929
Hôzawa, 1940
Vosmaeropsis macera (Carter, 1886)
Vosmaeropsis mackinnoni Dendy & Frederick, 1924
Hôzawa, 1929
Ferrer-Hernández, 1918
Tanita, 1942
Vosmaeropsis recruta Cavalcanti, Bastos & Lanna, 2015
Hôzawa, 1929
(Ridley, 1881)
Hôzawa, 1940
Tanita, 1943
Hôzawa, 1940
Dendy, 1893

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Australian Faunal Directory: Vosmaeropsis". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
^ ^a ^b Dendy, A. (1893). "Synopsis of the Australian Calcarea Heterocoela, with a proposed classification of the group and descriptions of some new genera and species". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. New Series. 5: 69-116 [76].
^ ^a ^b "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Vosmaeropsis Dendy, 1893". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
^ "Vosmaeropsis Dendy, 1893". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 23 October 2020.

External links[]

Cavalcanti, F.F.; Bastos, N.; Lanna, E. (12 May 2015). "Two new species of the genus Vosmaeropsis Dendy, 1892 (Porifera, Calcarea), with comments on the distribution of V. sericata (Ridley, 1881) along the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean". Zootaxa. 3956 (4): 476. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3956.4.2. ISSN 1175-5334.
Kim, Hoon-Soo; Park, Boon-Jo; Sim, Chong-Ja (1968). "Marine Sponges in South Korea (I)". The Korean Journal of Zoology. 11 (2): 37–47. ISSN 0440-2510.

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[afd-1] "Australian Faunal Directory: Vosmaeropsis". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 23 October 2020.

[dendy-2] Dendy, A. (1893). "Synopsis of the Australian Calcarea Heterocoela, with a proposed classification of the group and descriptions of some new genera and species". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. New Series. 5: 69-116 [76].

[:0-3] "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Vosmaeropsis Dendy, 1893". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 23 October 2020.

[4] "Vosmaeropsis Dendy, 1893". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 23 October 2020.

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