Genus Negombata Laubenfels, 1936
- Negombata Laubenfels, M.W. de 1936. A discussion of the sponge fauna of the Dry Tortugas in particular, and the West Indies in general, with material for a revision of the families and orders of the Porifera. (Tortugas Lab. Paper No. 467). Publication of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Washington 30: 1-225 22 pls 1 map [159].
Type species:
Latrunculia corticata Carter, 1879 by original designation. - Oxylatrunculia Hoshino, T. 1981. Shallow-water demosponges of Western Japan. I., II. Journal of Science of the Hiroshima University B1 29(1–2): 47-205, 207-289 [221].
Type species:
Oxylatrunculia acanthosanidastera Hoshino, 1981 by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Wiedenmayer, F. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994] [249]
Distribution
States
Tasmania
Extra Distribution Information
Red Sea and Japan.
IMCRA
Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)
Distribution References
- Hoshino, T. 1981. Shallow-water demosponges of Western Japan. I., II. Journal of Science of the Hiroshima University B1 29(1–2): 47-205, 207-289
Diagnosis
Erect, foliose, pedunculate, digitate, branching. Compressible, with an extremely smooth surface through which large pores are clearly visible. Megasclere skeleton consists of uniform, elongate, to square-meshed reticulation of clear spongin cored fairly irregularly with thick, slightly curved oxea with strongylote ends, and a clear hollow axial canal. Ectosome with thin fusiform wavy oxeas in tracts that fan within a thick collagenous ectosome, ultimately forming surface brushes. Microscleres, irregular spinorhabds in two sizes, largest very irregular, thick, without a distinct shaft, smaller, with a distinct straight or curved shaft with spines of uneven length arranged roughly in two central whorls and two terminal bunches, terminally commonly double. Immature microscleres, straight rods in which one or more spines from apices are strongly recurved, disposed predominantly on the extreme external surface of the ectosome, but can also be very dense within the choanosome (modified from Kelly-Borges & Vacelet 1995).
ID Keys
See Family Podospongiidae Diagnosis
Diagnosis References
Kelly, M. & Samaai, T. 2002. Family Podospongiidae de Laubenfels, 1936. pp. 694-702 in Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera: A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 1. [698]
General References
Kelly-Borges, M. & Vacelet, J. 1995. A revision of Diacarnus Burton and Negombata de Laubenfels (Demospongiae: Latrunculiidae) with descriptions of new species from the west central Pacific and the Red Sea. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38(2): 477-503 [495]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29-Mar-2018 | 15-Dec-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 29-Mar-2018 | 13-Apr-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |