Aaptos Explained

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

It was first described by John Edward Gray in 1867.^{[1] [2]}

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Aaptos:^[3]

• 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Australian Faunal Directory: Aaptos. live. 2021-12-27. biodiversity.org.au. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20211031060340/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Aaptos . 2021-10-31 .
2. Gray, J.E.. John Edward Gray. 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] .
3. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Aaptos.html Animal Diversity