Genus Aulospongus Norman, 1878

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• Aulospongus Norman, A.M. 1878. On the genus Haliphysema, with description of several forms apparently allied to it. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 1: 265-284 pl. 16 [267].

  Type species:

   Haliphysema tubulatus Bowerbank, 1873 by original designation.
• Aulospongiella Burton, M. 1956. The sponges of West Africa. pp. 111–147 in Atlantide Report. Copenhagen : Danish Science Press 4 pp. [141].

  Type species:

   Axinella monticularis Ridley & Dendy, 1886 by original designation.
• Hemectyonilla Burton, M. 1959. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition 10(5): 151-281 41 figs [254].

  Type species:

   Stylostichon involutum Kirkpatrick, 1903 by original designation.
• Heterectya Hallmann, E.F. 1917. On the genera Echinaxia and Rhabdosigma. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 42: 391-405 2 figs pls 21-22 [393].

  Type species:

   Raspailia villosa Thiele, 1898 by original designation.
• Rhaphidectyon Topsent, E. 1927. Diagnoses d'Eponges nouvelles recueillies par le Prince Albert Ier de Monaco. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco 502: 1-19 [15].

  Type species:

   Rhaphidectyon spinosum Topsent, 1927 by original designation.
• Trachostylea Topsent, E. 1928. Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert Ier de Monaco. Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco 74: 1-376 11 pls [166].

  Type species:

   Trachostylea semota Topsent, 1928 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Raspailiidae Hentschel, 1923. pp. 469-510 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. [480]

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Diagnosis

Raspailiidae with at least two size classes of rhabdostyles of similar geometry, the larger (smooth or partially spined) core spongin fibres, and the smaller (partially spined) echinate fibres although neither are localised to any region of the skeleton; choanosomal skeletal structure is predominantly plumose, with spicules and fibres amalgamated into bulbous tracts (‘fibrebundles’), more-or-less compacted in the axial skeleton, becoming increasingly plumose as they ascend to the periphery, eventually producing a shaggy, compartmentalised or conulose surface; axial and extra-axial skeletons undifferentiated apart from greater amalgamation of fibre-bundles in the axis.

Diagnosis References

Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Raspailiidae Hentschel, 1923. pp. 469-510 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. [481]

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