''Vosmaeropsis recruta'' is a
species of
calcareous sponge
The calcareous sponges of class Calcarea are members of the animal phylum Porifera, the cellular sponges. They are characterized by spicules made of calcium carbonate in the form of calcite or aragonite. While the spicules in most species hav ...
in the family
Heteropiidae
Heteropiidae is a family of sea sponges in the order Leucosolenida in the class Calcarea. In a 2012 paper, Oliver Voigt, Eilika Wülfing and Gert Wörheide (2012) confirmed that the family Heteropiidae is not monophyletic
In cladistics f ...
, and was first described in 2015 by Cavalcanti, Bastos & Lanna.
It is found off the Brazilian coast.
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References
Calcarea
Animals described in 2015
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