Clathrina aurea explained

Clathrina aurea is a species of calcareous sponge from Brazil. Specimens of this species were previously misidentified with Clathrina clathrus^[1]

Description

Cormus formed of large, irregular and loosely anastomosed tubes with many oscula. Water-collecting tubes are absent. Living specimens have a yellow cormus, which becomes white after preservation in ethanol. The skeleton has no special organisation and it is composed of only equiangular and equiradiate triactines. Actines are cylindrical and slightly undulated near the tip, which is rounded.^[2]

References

World Register of Marine Species entry

Notes and References

1. Solé-Cava . Klautau . Boury-Esnault . Borojevic . Thorpe . 1991 . Genetic evidence for cryptic speciation in allopatric populations of two cosmopolitan species of the calcareous sponge genus Clathrina . Marine Biology . 111 . 3 . 381–386 . 10.1007/bf01319410. 1991MarBi.111..381S . 85883696 .
2. Lanna. Emílio. Rossi, André Linhares . Cavalcanti, Fernanda F. . Hajdu, Eduardo . Klautau, Michelle . Calcareous sponges from São Paulo State, Brazil (Porifera: Calcarea: Calcinea) with the description of two new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK. 3 December 2007. 87. 6. 1553–1561 . 10.1017/S0025315407056871. 2007JMBUK..87.1553L . 85668965 .