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Over the past few years, there has been growing interest among the sponge community in the phylogenetic position of the Homoscleromorpha (i. e. within or outside the class Demospongiae). Recent molecular analyses clearly show that the Homoscleromorpha forms a distinct clade separated from the Demospongiae and is composed of two families, Oscarellidae and Plakinidae. Within the currently more widely accepted hypothesis of a monophyletic Porifera, we formally propose here to raise Homoscleromorpha to the class rank (the fourth one). We, therefore, provide a definition and a formal diagnosis. In the supplementary materials, we also present an alternative classification of the Homoscleromorpha, following the PhyloCode.

Язык оригиналаанглийский
Страницы (с-по)3-10
Число страниц8
ЖурналHydrobiologia
Том687
Номер выпуска1
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СостояниеОпубликовано - мая 2012

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