Genus Acheliderma Topsent, 1892

Museums

Regional Maps

• Fusifer Dendy, A. 1896. Catalogue of non-calcareous sponges collected by J. Bracebridge Wilson, Esq., M.A., in the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads. Part 2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 8: 14-51 [49].

  Type species:

   Fusifer fistulatus Dendy, 1896 by monotypy.
• Acheliderma Topsent, E. 1892. Diagnoses d'Eponges nouvelles de la Méditerranée et plus particulièrement de Banyuls. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 2 10(Notes Rev.): xvii-xxviii [24].

  Type species:

   Acheliderma lemniscata Topsent, 1892 by original designation.
• Astylinifer Topsent, E. 1927. Diagnoses d'Eponges nouvelles recueillies par le Prince Albert Ier de Monaco. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco 502: 1-19 [9].

  Type species:

   Astylinifer planus Topsent, 1927 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Diagnosis

Fistulose growth forms; ectosomal spicules are tylotes with microspined bases lying tangential to surface (replaced by sand in one species); choanosomal skeleton an irregular reticulation of microspined styles and echinating acanthostyles; microscleres characteristically elongated diamond-shaped microxeas and toxas;
chelae absent.

ID Keys

See Family Acarnidae Diagnosis.

Diagnosis References

Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Acarnidae Dendy, 1922. pp. 412-431 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. [416]

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