• Aciculites Schmidt, E.O. 1879. Die Spongien des Meerbusen von Mexico und des Caraibischen Meeres. II. Gustav. Fischer : Jena pp. 33-90 pls 5-10. [29] (This book was published in 1879 not 1880, as per the Systema Porifera book).

  Type species:

   Aciculites higginsi Schmidt, 1879 by monotypy.
• Sympyla Sollas, W.J. 1888. Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 25(63): clxvi 1-458 44 pls 1 map [353].

Distribution

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21)

Diagnosis

Polymorphic: massive, foliated or incrusting with short papillae. Rhizoclone desmas bear strong blunt spines; ectosomal spicules are acanthose anisostrongyles and/or styles; microscleres of any type absent.

Diagnosis References

Pisera, A. & Lévi, C. 2002. Family Scleritodermidae Sollas, 1888. pp. 302-311 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. [302]

History of changes

• Aciculites orientalis Dendy, A. 1905. Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. 57-246 pls 1-16 in Herdman, W.A. (ed.). Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. London : Royal Society Vol. 3 Suppl. 18. [101].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH “RN 50”, "Ceylon Seas".

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Introuvable Seamount, Norfolk Ridge, 562-589 m Previously known from Sri Lanka

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21)

Distribution References

History of changes