Agelasida Hartman 1980

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

Photo G. van Moorsel.

Original description and illustration.

Photographed in situ in the Thousand Islands, Indonesia.

Original description and illustrations.

Holotype RMNH Por. 9844 from Van Soest, 2017: 119, Fig. 72.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

The strictly verticillate condition of the mature spicule is a synapomorphy of Agelasidae. Photo courtesy Michael Assmann.

From Hooper, 2008.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

Image scanned from Duchassaing & Michelotti,1864's pl. XV figure 1. This species is the type of Agelas.

Original description and illustrations.

The cross section shows the unique radial structure of the Agelas fibre and an echinating verticillated style. Photo R. Gómez.

Agelas cerebrum Assmann et al. 2001, ZMA Por. 15603, in situ on Bahamian reefs, photo M. Assmann.

Grotte Arc en Ciel, Marseille, France: 27-07-2005.

Bahamas, photo F. Parra Velandia.

Agelas oroides (Schmidt, 1864) ZMA Por. 14435, in situ off the E coast of Spain. Photo M.J. de Kluijver.

Agelas conifera specimen from the Curaçao reefs

Holotype ZMA 00607 seen from opposite sides. Photo R.W.M. van Soest.

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