Asbestopluma, TOPSENT, 1901

Hestetun, Jon Thomassen, Tompkins-Macdonald, Gabrielle & Rapp, Hans Tore, 2017, A review of carnivorous sponges (Porifera: Cladorhizidae) from the Boreal North Atlantic and Arctic, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 181, pp. 1-69 : 4

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GENUS ASBESTOPLUMA TOPSENT, 1901 View in CoL

Synonymy: Cometella Schmidt, 1870: 49 (nomen oblitum); Asbestopluma Lankester, 1882: 478 (nomen nudum); Asbestopluma Topsent, 1901: 23 ;

Helophloeina Topsent, 1929: 8 View in CoL . Not: Lycopodina Lundbeck, 1905: 58 View in CoL ; Cotylina Lundbeck, 1905: 68 View in CoL .

Diagnosis: Cladorhizidae with at least one small category of palmate, in a few species modified to anchorate unguiferate, anisochela. Usually with a second larger type of palmate to arcuate anisochela that may be modified to isochela, anisoplacochela, tridentate anchorate chela or diancistra. Sigmancistras and basal acanthotylostyles are also present with a few exceptions. Forceps spicules not present (modified from Hestetun et al., 2016b).

Type species: Cladorhiza pennatula Schmidt, 1875 (by subsequent designation; Topsent, 1901).