Genus Acanthostrongylophora Hooper, 1984

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• Acanthostrongylophora Hooper, J.N.A. 1984. A new genus and two new species of haplosclerid sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the Timor Sea, northwest Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 96(2): 55-60 [58].

  Type species:

   Acanthostrongylophora ashmorica Hooper, 1984 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Diagnosis

Petrosiidae with a lamellate-isotropic heavily meshed reticulation of spicule tracts cored by thick strongyles and fewer thin oxeas. Ectosome with an irregular subrectangular loose reticulation of megascleres, interrupted by the terminal part of longitudinal tracts. Surface membrane thin and fragile with irregular pores. Choanosome cavernous, crumb-of-bread texture. Spongin scarce. Spicules strongyles and thin oxeas. (Emended from Hooper 1984a).

ID Keys

See Family Petrosiidae Diagnosis

Diagnosis References

Desqueyroux-Faundez, R. & Valentine, C. 2002. Family Petrosiidae Van Soest, 1980. pp. 906-917 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. [908]

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