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Taxon: Genus Pleroma Sollas, 1888 (sponge)
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Authorship

Original name, rank & spelling Sollas, W.J. 1888. Rep. Voy. Challenger Exped., Zool., 25, no. 63: clvi, 312. ("n. gen.").

Etymology

Greek (subst. neut.) πληρωμα (gen.: πληρώμᾰτος), a full measure. Ref: Sollas, W.J. 1888. Rep. Voy. Challenger Exped., Zool., 25, no. 63: 312 (footnote 1).
Greek (subst. neut.) πληρωμα (gen.: πληρώμᾰτος), complement. Ref: Sollas, W.J. 1888. Rep. Voy. Challenger Exped., Zool., 25, no. 63: 312 (footnote 1). ("in allusion to the presence of a full complement of spicules")

Types

Type ofPleromatinae (Subfamily) Sollas, 1888 Ref: PBDB: [15 Mar 2015] (R.M. Finks et al., 2004). [inferred]
Type ofPleromidae (Family) Sollas, 1888
Type, by monotypy, ofPleromatidae (Family) Sollas, 1888 Ref: Lendenfeld, 1903: 140. [new] [implicit]

Synonyms

Synonymous nameLyidium (Genus) Schmidt, 1870 Ref: R.W.M. van Soest et al. (eds.): [19 Feb 2015].
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