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List Of Poriferans Of Venezuela
The sponges of Venezuela are a part of the Porifera fauna of Venezuela (which is part of the wildlife of Venezuela). A number of species of sponges are found in the wild in Venezuela. This is a partial list of the marine and freshwater sponges of Venezuela. The families are listed alphabetically within the classes. Statistics Marine sponges Family Acarnidae * AcarnusSutherland, J.P. 1980: Dynamics of the epibenthic community on roots of the mangrove ''Rhizophora mangle'', at Bahia de Buche, Venezuela. Marine Biology, 58:75-84PDF/ref> Family Adociidae * '' Sigmadocia caerulea'' Hechtel 1965Díaz, Humberto., Bevilacqua, Marina. y Bone, David. 1985. Esponjas del Parque Nacional Morrocoy. Fondo Editorial Acta Científica Venezolana. Caracas. 64p. Family Aplysinidae * ''Aplysina archeri'' (Higgin, 1875)Catálogo de la colección de Porifera del Museo de Biología de la Universidad Central (MBUCV-XX)Villamizar, E. and R. A. Laughlin. 1991. Fauna associated with the spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It has a territorial extension of , and its population was estimated at 29 million in 2022. The capital and largest urban agglomeration is the city of Caracas. The continental territory is bordered on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Colombia, Brazil on the south, Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east and on the east by Guyana. The Venezuelan government maintains a claim against Guyana to Guayana Esequiba. Venezuela is a federal presidential republic consisting of 23 states, the Capital District and federal dependencies covering Venezuela's offshore islands. Venezuela is among the most urbanized countries in Latin America; the vast majority of Venezuelans live in the cities of the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callyspongia Vaginalis
''Callyspongia'' (''Cladochalina'') ''aculeata'', commonly known as the branching vase sponge is a species of '' Porifora'', meaning sea sponge, in the family Callyspongiidae. Poriferans are typically characterized by ostia, pores that filter out plankton, with an osculum as the opening which water leaves through, and choanocytes trap food particles. This species is frequently colonized by '' Parazoanthus parasiticus'', a colonial anemone, and ''Ophiothrix suensonii'', a brittle star. It feeds on plankton and detritus. The color of ''C. aculeata'' is variable, ranging from red to orange, lavender to brownish-gray, greenish-gray, and sometimes light tan. Defining Traits ''Callyspongia aculeata'' usually has a tubular growth pattern, although the magnitude of the current affects its growth form. The dominant morphotypes are tubular elongated and tubular vaciform. The long, erect tubes taper slightly and have a wide vent up to 2.5 cm in diameter with a thin wall. The sponge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darwinellidae
Darwinellidae is a family of sponges in the order Dendroceratida. Species * Genus '' Aplysilla'' Schulze, 1878 ** '' Aplysilla arctica'' Laubenfels, 1948 ** '' Aplysilla glacialis'' (Merejkowski, 1877) ** '' Aplysilla lacunosa'' Keller, 1889 ** '' Aplysilla lendenfeldi'' Thiele, 1905 ** '' Aplysilla longispina'' George & Wilson, 1919 ** '' Aplysilla pallida'' Lendenfeld, 1889 ** '' Aplysilla polyraphis'' de Laubenfels, 1930 ** '' Aplysilla rosea'' (Barrois, 1876) ** '' Aplysilla rubra'' (Hanitsch, 1890) ** '' Aplysilla sulfurea'' Schulze, 1878 * Genus '' Armodendrilla'' Van Soest & Hooper, 2020 ** '' Armodendrilla bergquistae'' Van Soest & Hooper, 2020 * Genus '' Chelonaplysilla'' Laubenfels, 1948 ** '' Chelonaplysilla americana'' van Soest, 2017 ** '' Chelonaplysilla arenosa'' (Topsent, 1925) ** '' Chelonaplysilla aurea'' Bergquist, 1995 ** '' Chelonaplysilla betinensis'' Zea & van Soest, 1986 ** '' Chelonaplysilla delicata'' Pulitzer-Finali & Pronzato, 1999 ** '' Chelonaplys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monanchora Arbuscula
''Monanchora arbuscula'' is a species of marine demosponge in the family Crambeidae. Description ''Monanchora arbusula'' is an encrusting or bushy demosponge which is dark red or bright scarlet on its inside and its surface. It forms either a low or tall mass, and individual organisms can have a bush, round, or fan shape. Its has scattered openings ( oscula) which are surrounded by a white collar in a star-like pattern. These collars are formed from exhalant canals which can sometimes not be seen. There are a few oscula which are on the ends of short tube-shaped lobes, and there are many knobs (lamellae) along the surface. Often, specimens will have different combinations of kinds of spicules which attach them to their medium. When certain specimens lack one or more of these types of spicule, identifying them becomes problematic. For example, while encrusting specimens have fine filaments of roughly tylostyle spicules, bushy specimens have a central mesh of spicules which are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crambeidae
Crambeidae is a family of marine demosponges. Identification of members of this family of sponges is based on microscopic examination of the spicules in their skeleton. The megascleres consist of peripheral thinner subtylostyles and thicker choanosomal styles while the microscleres are exclusively anchorate chelae. Genera *''Crambe ''Crambe'' is a genus of annual and perennial flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, native to a variety of habitats in Europe, Turkey, southwest and central Asia and eastern Africa. They carry dense racemes of tiny white or yellow flowers ...'' Vosmaer, 1880 *'' Discorhabdella'' Dendy, 1924 *'' Lithochela'' Burton, 1929 *'' Monanchora'' Carter, 1883 References Poecilosclerida {{Demosponge-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lissodendoryx
''Lissodendoryx'' is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Coelosphaeridae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext .... Species: *'' Lissodendoryx acanthostylota'' *'' Lissodendoryx albemarlensis'' *'' Lissodendoryx amaknakensis'' *'' Lissodendoryx collinsi'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q4118335 Poecilosclerida Sponge genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coelosphaeridae
Coelosphaeridae is a family of sponges belonging to the order Poecilosclerida. Species are found across the globe. Description Originally it was believed that this family was restricted to hollow, bladder-like, spherical, club-shaped, tubular, and cushion-shaped growth forms. Other forms, however, were found to have similar spiculation so have since been included, while other genera such as Coelocarteria were removed due to their differing spiculation. This family now contains a diverse array of forms, including fistular (hollow), branching, massive and encrusting sponges. The surface is typically smooth in fistular forms. It is usually irregularly pitted in non-fistular forms, but areolated (colour ringed) pore-fields are absent. The skeletal architecture is similar to that of the myxillid sponges. Both groups are made of a network of tracts that form an isodictyal skeleton. The usual brushes of tomotes assume a partially tangential position. In the bladder-like fistular for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliona Varians
''Cliona'' is a genus of demosponges in the family Clionaidae. It contains about eighty described species. Species Species in this genus include: * '' Cliona acephala'' Zea & López-Victoria, 2016 * '' Cliona adriatica'' Calcinai, Bavestrello, Cuttone & Cerrano, 2011 * '' Cliona aethiopicus'' Burton, 1932 * '' Cliona albimarginata'' Calcinai, Bavestrello & Cerrano, 2005 * '' Cliona amplicavata'' Rützler, 1974 * '' Cliona annulifera'' Annandale, 1915 * '' Cliona aprica'' Pang, 1973 * '' Cliona argus'' Thiele, 1898 * '' Cliona barbadensis'' Holmes, 2000 * '' Cliona burtoni'' Topsent, 1932 * '' Cliona caesia'' (Schönberg, 2000) * '' Cliona caledoniae'' van Soest & Beglinger, 2009 * '' Cliona californiana'' de Laubenfels, 1932 * '' Cliona caribbaea'' Carter, 1882 * '' Cliona carteri'' (Ridley, 1881) * ''Cliona celata'' Grant, 1826 * '' Cliona chilensis'' Thiele, 1905 * '' Cliona delitrix'' Pang, 1973 * '' Cliona desimoni'' Bavestrello, Calcinai & Sarà, 1995 * '' Cliona dioryssa' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliona Raphida
''Cliona'' is a genus of demosponges in the family Clionaidae. It contains about eighty described species. Species Species in this genus include: * '' Cliona acephala'' Zea & López-Victoria, 2016 * ''Cliona adriatica'' Calcinai, Bavestrello, Cuttone & Cerrano, 2011 * ''Cliona aethiopicus'' Burton, 1932 * '' Cliona albimarginata'' Calcinai, Bavestrello & Cerrano, 2005 * '' Cliona amplicavata'' Rützler, 1974 * '' Cliona annulifera'' Annandale, 1915 * ''Cliona aprica'' Pang, 1973 * '' Cliona argus'' Thiele, 1898 * '' Cliona barbadensis'' Holmes, 2000 * ''Cliona burtoni'' Topsent, 1932 * ''Cliona caesia'' (Schönberg, 2000) * ''Cliona caledoniae'' van Soest & Beglinger, 2009 * ''Cliona californiana'' de Laubenfels, 1932 * ''Cliona caribbaea'' Carter, 1882 * ''Cliona carteri'' (Ridley, 1881) * ''Cliona celata'' Grant, 1826 * ''Cliona chilensis'' Thiele, 1905 * ''Cliona delitrix'' Pang, 1973 * ''Cliona desimoni'' Bavestrello, Calcinai & Sarà, 1995 * ''Cliona dioryssa'' (de Laubenfe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clionidae
The Clionidae are a family of sea angels, which are a group of pelagic marine gastropods. They resemble angels, complete with flapping "wings", hence their common name. They are gelatinous, mostly transparent pteropods, and they only have shells in their embryonic stage. They are mostly very small, with the largest species (''Clione limacina'') reaching . External anatomy The Clionidae use winglike flaps for rhythmical locomotion, as if flying in the sea. These "wings" are attached to the anterior part of the body. The posterior part is gelatinous and mostly transparent. The orange visceral sac is confined to the anterior part. Life habits Mating is carried out ventrally for mutual fertilization. The following spring, this results in a free-floating, gelatinous egg mass. Taxonomy Clionidae d'Orbigny, 1851 is unfortunately also the name of a family of sponges in the order Hadromerida, class Demospongiae. Within the ICZN there has been a proposed emendation of spelling to Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chondrilla Nucula
''Chondrilla nucula'', sometimes called the Caribbean chicken-liver sponge, is a species of sea sponge belonging to the family Chondrillidae. It is an amorphous shaped sponge that grows in flat, sometimes bulbous sheets in benthic communities. It is sometimes found in marginal, stressful systems such as caves. Such sponges are white, lacking access to sunlight, and photosymbionts. It is known to be preyed upon by the hawksbill turtle, ''Eretmochelys imbricata The hawksbill sea turtle (''Eretmochelys imbricata'') is a critically endangered sea turtle belonging to the family Cheloniidae. It is the only extant species in the genus ''Eretmochelys''. The species has a global distribution, that is large ...''. This sponge has been found to contain strains of bacteria that contained antimicrobial properties. These properties have been shown to inhibit certain bacteria which are harmful to human including ''Staphylococcus aureus.'' References Tetractinomorpha Taxa named b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chondrilla Caribensis
''Chondrilla'' is the scientific name shared by two genera of life-forms: * ''Chondrilla'' (plant), a plant genus in family Asteraceae * ''Chondrilla'' (sponge), a sea sponge genus {{Genus disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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