Subgenus Antho (Antho) Gray, 1867
- Antho Gray, J.E. 1867. Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the description of some new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 492-558 pls 27-28 [524].
Type species:
Myxilla involvens Schmidt, 1864 by monotypy. - Dictyoclathria Topsent, E. 1920. Spongiaires du Musée zoologique de Strasbourg. Monaxonides. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco 381: 1-36 [18].
Type species:
Clathria morisca Schmidt, 1868 by original designation. - Isociona Hallmann, E.F. 1920. New genera of monaxonid sponges related to the genus Clathria. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 44: 767-792 3 figs pls 36-40 [768].
Type species:
Lissodendoryx tuberosa Hentschel, 1911 by monotypy. - Anomoclathria Topsent, E. 1929. Phénomènes de styloprothèse chez les Poecilosclérines. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 68(Notes rev.): 19-32 14 figs [26].
Type species:
Alcyonium opuntioides Lamarck, 1815 by original designation. - Jia Laubenfels, M.W. de 1930. The sponges of California. Stanford University Bulletin 5 5(98): 24-29 [28].
Type species:
Jia jia de Laubenfels, 1930 by original designation. - Quizciona 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 [111].
Type species:
Microciona heterospiculata Brøndsted, 1924 by original designation. - Anthoarcuata Bakus, G.J. 1966. Marine poeciloscleridan sponges of the San Juan Archipelago, Washington. Journal of Zoology, London 149: 415-531 2 pls [431].
Type species:
Anthoarcuata graceae Bakus, 1966 by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Hooper, J.N.A. 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] [254]
- Hooper, J.N.A. 1996. Revision of Microcionidae (Porifera: Poecilosclerida: Demospongiae), with description of Australian species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 40: 1-626 [Date published 01/06/1996] [413]
Distribution
States
South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
E Atlantic Ocean (Europe), Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, S Africa, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region and E Pacific Ocean.
IMCRA
Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)
Distribution References
- Burton, M. 1959. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition 10(5): 151-281 41 figs [252]
- Lévi, C. 1960. Les Démosponges des côtes de France. I. Les Clathridae. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 1: 47-87 [76]
- Pulitzer-Finali, G. 1983. A collection of Mediterranean Demospongiae (Porifera) with, in appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the Mediterranean Sea. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 84: 445-621 [610]
Diagnosis
Encrusting, lobate and digitate growth forms; with a primary basal renieroid choanosomal skeleton composed of acanthostyles and/or acanthostrongyles; secondary extra-axial (subectosomal) skeleton plumose, plumo-reticulate, or simply composed of choanosomal styles echinating (project from) basal renieroid skeleton; spongin fibres poorly developed; special category of echinating acanthostyles absent; ectosomal skeleton with tangential, paratangential, or plumose tracts of one size of auxiliary styles or subtylostyles; microscleres include diverse forms of isochelae and toxas.
ID Keys
See Family Microcionidae Diagnosis
Diagnosis References
Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Microcionidae Carter, 1875. pp. 432-468 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. [456]
General References
Bergquist, P.R. & Fromont, J. 1988. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 4 (Poecilosclerida). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 96: 1-197 pls 1-57
van Soest, R.W.M. 1984. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part III. Poecilosclerida. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 66(199): 1-167 pls 1-10
History of changes
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