Sycon conulosum, Cóndor-Luján & Louzada & Hajdu & Klautau, 2018

Cóndor-Luján, Báslavi, Louzada, Taynara, Hajdu, Eduardo & Klautau, Michelle, 2018, Morphological and molecular taxonomy of calcareous sponges (Porifera: Calcarea) from Curaçao, Caribbean Sea, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 183 (3), pp. 459-525 : 508

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx082
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14813957
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2B7987A4-FFBB-FFC7-A653-F46BFC53FE54
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Sycon conulosum
status	sp. nov.

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SYCON CONULOSUM View in CoL SP. NOV.

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Etymology: Derived from the conulose appearance of the surface.

Type Locality: Daai Booi , St. Willibrordus , Curaçao. Materialexamined : Holotype. UFRJPOR 6707, DaaiBooi, St. Willibrordus, Curaçao (12°12′43.12″N, 69°05′8.42″W), 3–5 m depth, coll. B. Cóndor-Luján, 18 August 2011. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis: Sycon with a conulose appearance due to its separated distal cones. Skeleton mainly composed of triactines. Tetractines are only present in the atrial skeleton and they are less abundant than the atrial triactines.