Vetulina

Vetulina is a genus of sea sponges in the subclass Heteroscleromorpha. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Vetulinidae and the monotypic order Sphaerocladina.[2]

Vetulina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Sphaerocladina
Schrammen, 1924[1]
Family: Vetulinidae
Lendenfeld, 1903
Genus: Vetulina
Schmidt, 1879
Species

See text

Species

There are three species recognised within the genus:

  • Vetulina indica Pisera, Łukowiak, Fromont & Schuster, 2017
  • Vetulina rugosa Pisera, Łukowiak, Fromont & Schuster, 2017
  • Vetulina stalactites Schmidt, 1879
gollark: I mean, it probably won't cost you much, so I guess try it if you want to, but don't expect it to do anything.
gollark: You're not going to overturn extremely well-established scientific laws with some weird apparatus and some water.
gollark: It would only go to a certain height or something, you can't make it loop forever without inputting energy.
gollark: (unless this is satire, I'm terrible at detecting satire)
gollark: I don't understand the picture, but no, you have probably not stumbled on some simple solution for infinite energy which everyone else somehow missed.

References
  1. Schrammen, A. 1924. Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland. III. und letzter Teil. Monographien zur Geologie und Paläontologie (1) Heft 2: 1-159, I-XVII.
  2. van Soest, R. (2015). Sphaerocladina. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Díaz, M.-C.; Cárdenas, P.; Carballo, J. L. (2016). World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2017-02-17.
  • Data related to Vetulina at Wikispecies


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