''Aaptos nuda'' is a species of
sea sponge
Sponges or sea sponges are primarily marine invertebrates of the animal phylum Porifera (; meaning 'pore bearer'), a basal clade and a sister taxon of the diploblasts. They are sessile filter feeders that are bound to the seabed, and are o ...
belonging to the family
Suberitidae
Suberitidae is a family of sea sponges belonging to the order Suberitida. Genera
*''Aaptos''
*''Caulospongia''
*''Homaxinella''
*''Pseudospongosorites''
*''Rhizaxinella''
*''Suberites''
References
Suberitidae,
Sponge families
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. It is native to
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...
.
The species was described by
Randolph Kirkpatrick
Randolph Kirkpatrick (1863–1950) was a British spongiologist, cnidariologist and bryozoologist. He was assistant keeper of lower invertebrates at the British Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum from 1886 until his retirem ...
in 1903.
References
nuda
Beroidae is a family of ctenophores or comb jellies more commonly referred to as the beroids. It is the only known family within the monotypic order Beroida and the class Nuda. They are distinguished from other comb jellies by the complete abse ...
Sponges described in 1903
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