Amphilectus Vosmaer, 1880

Van Soest, Rob W. M., Beglinger, Elly J. & de Voogd, Nicole J., 2012, Sponges of the family Esperiopsidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from Northwest Africa, with the descriptions of four new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 18, pp. 1-21 : 3

Genus Amphilectus Vosmaer, 1880

Remarks

Amphilectus differs from the closely related genus Esperiopsis in the lack of additional microscleres and the generally smaller size of the styles. The difference in the latter character was fixed on 400 µm ( Van Soest & Hajdu 2002b), but this is to be interpreted loosely, as several species in both genera possess styles with lengths just under or above 400 µm. The genus to date contains 17 species (Van Soest et al. 2012), predominantly from temperate and cold water, evenly spread over the North Atlantic (five species), North Pacific (three species), South Atlantic (six species), and South Pacific waters (three species). The Atlantic species are summarized in Table 1 .