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Borojevia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Calcarea

Family
  
Clathrinidae

Phylum
  
Porifera

Order
  
Clathrinida

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Clathrinida, Calcinea, Clathrina, Sycon, Calcareous sponge

Borojevia is a genus of calcareous sponge in the family Clathrinidae. The genus is named after sponge researcher Radovan Borojevic.

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Description

Calcinea in which the cormus comprises tightly anastomosed tubes. The skeleton contains regular (equiangular and equiradiate) triactines, tetractines and tripods. The apical actine of the tetractines has spines. Aquiferous system asconoid.

Species

  • Borojevia aspina (Klautau, Solé-Cava & Borojevic, 1994)
  • Borojevia brasiliensis (Solé-Cava, Klautau, Boury-Esnault, Borojevic & Thorpe, 1991)
  • Borojevia cerebrum (Haeckel, 1872)
  • Borojevia paracerebrum (Austin, 1996)
  • Borojevia tetrapodifera (Klautau & Valentine, 2003)

    • References

    Borojevia Wikipedia
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