Genus Aplysilla Schulze, 1878
- Aplysilla Schulze, F.E. 1878. Untersuchungen über den Bau und die Entwicklung der Spongien. Vierte Mittheilung. Die Familie der Aplysinidae. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 30: 379-420 pls 21-24 [404].
Type species:
Verongia rosea Barrais, 1876 by subsequent designation, see Topsent, E. 1905. Etude sur les Dendroceratida. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 4 3: clxxi-cxcii 3 figs [cxc]. - Simplicella Merejkowsky, C. 1878. Preliminary account on sponges of the White Sea. Trudy Imperatorskago Sankt-St Petersburgskago Obshchestva Estestvoispytatelei 9: 249-270 [in Russian] [259].
Type species:
Simplicella glacialis Merejkowsky, 1878 by monotypy.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Bergquist, P.R. 1980. A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida (Class Demospongiae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 7: 443-503 figs 1-25 pls [484]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
West Indian region, N Atlantic, Arctic, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, S Africa, Indian Ocean, W, central and E Pacific, New Zealand and Subantarctic.
IMCRA
Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Diagnosis
Darwinellidae in which the sponge body is always encrusting and the skeleton is composed only of fibres which are clear of detritus and typically unbranched (Fig. 2A). In some species, for example A. polyraphis de Laubenfels, branching is frequent. Always encrusting growth form; often bright yellows, reds, pink colours, with colour changes; numerous short, almost unbranched fibres; fibres always clear of detritus.
ID Keys
See Family Darwinellidae Diagnosis
Diagnosis References
Bergquist, P.R. & Cook, S.D.C. 2002. Family Darwinellidae Merejkowsky, 1879. pp. 1068-1071 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. [1069]
General References
Bergquist, P.R. 1980. A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida (Class Demospongiae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 7: 443-503 figs 1-25 pls
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 29-Mar-2018 | 15-Dec-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 29-Mar-2018 | 13-Apr-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |