Aaptos

Aaptos is 'n genus van sponsdiere in die taksonomiese indeling van die Demospongiae (gewone sponse). Die genus behoort tot die familie Suberitidae. Aaptos is die eerste keer in 1867 wetenskaplik beskryf deur Gray. Die genus bestaan uit 20 spesies.

Spesies 
 Aaptos aaptos (Schmidt, 1864)
 Aaptos alphiensis (Samaai & Gibbons, 2005)
 Aaptos bergmanni (De Laubenfels, 1950)
 Aaptos ciliata (Wilson, 1925)
 Aaptos confertus (Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1994)
 Aaptos duchassaingi (Topsent, 1889)
 Aaptos durissima (Carter, 1882)
 Aaptos globosum (Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1994)
 Aaptos glutinans (Moraes, 2011)
 Aaptos horrida (Carter, 1886)
 Aaptos kanuux (Lehnert, Hocevar & Stone, 2008)
 Aaptos laxosuberites (Sollas, 1902)
 Aaptos niger (Hoshino, 1981)
 Aaptos nuda (Kirkpatrick, 1903)
 Aaptos papillata (Keller, 1880)
 Aaptos pernucleata (Carter, 1870)
 Aaptos robustus (Plotkin & Janussen, 2008)
 Aaptos rosacea (Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1994)
 Aaptos suberitoides (Brøndsted, 1934)
 Aaptos tentum (Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1994)
 Aaptos vannamei (De Laubenfels, 1935)

Bronne 
 Gray, J.E. 1867a. Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII.
 Rob van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Suberitidae. In: Hooper, J.N.A & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera, a guide to the classification of the sponges (in 2 volumes). Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York: 1-1708, i-xlviii
 Kelly, M. (2009). Demospongiae, Calcarea (Porifera). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
 Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103

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