Borojevia Explained

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

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.^[1]

Species

• Borojevia aspina (Klautau, Solé-Cava & Borojevic, 1994)
• Borojevia brasiliensis (Solé-Cava, Klautau, Boury-Esnault, Borojevic & Thorpe, 1991)
• Borojevia cerebrum (Haeckel, 1872)
• Borojevia croatica Klautau, Imesek, Azevedo, Plese, Nikolic & Cetkovic, 2016
• Borojevia crystallina Fontana, Cóndor-Luján, Azevedo, Pérez & Klautau, 2018
• Borojevia paracerebrum (Austin, 1996)
• Borojevia pirella Van Soest & De Voogd, 2018
• Borojevia tetrapodifera (Klautau & Valentine, 2003)
• Borojevia tenuispinata Azevedo, Padua, Moraes, Rossi, Muricy & Klautau, 2017
• Borojevia trispinata Azevedo, Padua, Moraes, Rossi, Muricy & Klautau, 2017
• Borojevia tubulata Van Soest & De Voogd, 2018
• Borojevia voigti Van Soest & De Voogd, 2018

References

World Register of Marine Species entry

Notes and References

1. Klautau. M.. Azevedo, F. . Condor-Lujan, B. . Rapp, H. T. . Collins, A. . Russo, C. A. d. M. . A Molecular Phylogeny for the Order Clathrinida Rekindles and Refines Haeckel's Taxonomic Proposal for Calcareous Sponges. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 23 May 2013. 53. 3. 447–461. 10.1093/icb/ict039 . 23704365. free.