Neopetrosia Explained

Neopetrosia is a genus of marine petrosiid sponges. It was first established by the American spongiologist Max Walker de Laubenfels in 1932. It contains these 27 species:

• Neopetrosia carbonaria (Lamarck, 1814)
• Neopetrosia chaliniformis (Thiele, 1899)
• Neopetrosia compacta (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
• Neopetrosia contignata (Thiele, 1899)
• Neopetrosia cristata Vicente, Ríos, Zea & Toonen, 2019
• Neopetrosia cylindrica (Lamarck, 1815)
• Neopetrosia delicatula (Dendy, 1905)
• Neopetrosia dendrocrevacea Vicente, Ríos, Zea & Toonen, 2019
• Neopetrosia densissima (Wilson, 1904)
• Neopetrosia dominicana (Pulitzer-Finali, 1986)
• Neopetrosia dutchi Van Soest, Meesters & Becking, 2014
• Neopetrosia eurystomata Van Soest, Meesters & Becking, 2014
• Neopetrosia granulosa (Wilson, 1925)
• Neopetrosia halichondrioides Dendy, 1905
• Neopetrosia massa (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
• Neopetrosia ovata Van Soest, Meesters & Becking, 2014
• Neopetrosia perforata (Lévi, 1959)
• Neopetrosia problematica (de Laubenfels, 1930)
• Neopetrosia proxima (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
• Neopetrosia rava (Thiele, 1899)
• Neopetrosia retiderma (Dendy, 1922)
• Neopetrosia rosariensis (Zea & Rützler, 1983)
• Neopetrosia sapra (de Laubenfels, 1954)
• Neopetrosia seriata (Hentschel, 1912)
• Neopetrosia sigmafera Vicente, Ríos, Zea & Toonen, 2019
• Neopetrosia similis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
• Neopetrosia subtriangularis (Duchassaing, 1850)
• Neopetrosia sulcata Santos, Sandes, Cabral & Pinheiro, 2016
• Neopetrosia tenera (Carter, 1887)
• Neopetrosia truncata (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
• Neopetrosia tuberosa (Dendy, 1922)
• Neopetrosia vanilla (de Laubenfels, 1930)
• Neopetrosia zumi (Ristau, 1978)