Genus Acanthochaetetes Fischer, 1970

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• Acanthochaetetes Fischer, J.C. 1970. Revision et essai de classification des Chaetetida (Cnidaria) post-paléoseiques. Annales de Paléontologie Invertébrés 56: 149-233 [151].

  Type species:

   Acanthochaetetes seunesi Fischer, 1970 by original designation.
• Tabulospongia Mori, K. 1976. A new Recent sclerosponge from Ngargol, Palau Islands and its fossil relatives. Science Report of the Tohôku University 2 46(1): 1-9 [2].

  Type species:

   Tabulospongia horiguchii Mori, 1976 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hartman, W.D. & Goreau, T.F. 1970. Jamaican coralline sponges: their morphology, ecology and fossil relatives. In The biology of the Porifera. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London 25: 205-243 [2]
• Rützler, K. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Family Acanthochaetetidae Fischer, 1970. pp. 275-278 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.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Widely distributed from the Red Sea, W Indian Ocean, to French Polynesia, E Pacific .

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

(Combining information from fossil and Recent material). Sponge has a basal calcite skeleton composed of contiguous vertical, tabulate calicles with lamellar microstructure and covered at the lower surface by an epitheca with concentric growth lines. The inner walls of the calicles are ornamented by vertical rows or clumps of spines. Growth occurs by intramural budding. Living tissue is restricted to a thin surface layer and to the lumen of the outermost tabulae and contains a siliceous spiculation of megascleres in the choanosome and common, relatively large microscleres condensed in the ectosome. Exhalant canals converging upon the slightly elevated oscula create a star-like pattern that is also impressed into the surface of the calcitic calicles and is termed astrorhizae. Spicules consist of tylostylote megascleres, points directed outward, and spiraster-like microscleres.

 

ID Keys

See Family Acanthochaetetidae Diagnosis.

 

Diagnosis References

Rützler, K. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Family Acanthochaetetidae Fischer, 1970. pp. 275-278 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. [277]

 

General References

Reitner, J., Woerheide, G., Lange, R. & Thiel, V. 1997. Biomineralization of calcified skeletons in three Pacific coralline demosponges—an approach to the evolution of basal skeletons. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 201: 371-383 [371]

Reitner, J., Woerheide, G., Thiel, V. & Gautret, P. 1996. Reef caves and cryptic habitats of Indo-Pacific Reefs — distribution patterns of coralline sponges and microbialites. In Reitner, J., Neuweiler, F. & Gunkel, F. (eds) Global and regional Controls on Biogenic Sedimentation. 1. Reef evolution. Research Reports. Goettinger Arb. Geol. Palaeontol., Sb2 (Goettingen). 91-100 pp. [91]

Woerheide, G., Reitner, J. & Gautret, P. 1996. Biocalcification processes in three coralline sponges from the Lizard Island Section (Great Barrier Reef, Australia): the Stromatoporoid Astrosclera, the Chaetitid Spirastrella (Acanthochaetetes) and the Sphinctozoid Vaceletia (Demospongiae). In Reitner, J., Neuweiler, F. & Gunkel, F. (eds) Global and regional Controls on Biogenic Sedimentation. 1. Reef evolution. Research Reports. Goettinger Arb. Geol. Palaeontol., Sb2 (Goettingen). 149-153 pp. [149]

 

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
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