Subgenus Antho (Isopenectya) Hallman, 1920

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• Isopenectya 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 [789].

  Type species:

   Clathria chartacea Whitelegge, 1907 by monotypy.
• Clathriella Burton, M. 1935. Some sponges from the Okhotsk Sea and the Sea of Japan. Issledovaniya Fauny Morei Akademia Nauk Zoological Institute 22: 61-79 [73].

  Type species:

   Clathriella primitiva Burton, 1935 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] [255]
• 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] [433]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

Bulbous, arborescent and flabellate growth forms; with three skeleton components: (1) renieroid reticulation of acanthose styles, (2) overlayed by isodictyal or subisodictyal reticulation of smooth styles coring spongin fibres, (3) surmounted by plumose or radial extra-axial skeleton of larger smooth styles, perpendicular to axis, in peripheral region; skeleton may be slightly compressed at core, spongin fibres only moderately developed; echinating megascleres absent; ectosomal skeleton with single category of auxiliary subtylostyle forming tangential or paratangential tracts; microscleres absent.

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. [460]

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