Genus Axinella Schmidt, 1862

Museums

Regional Maps

• Axinella Schmidt, E.O. 1862. Die Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 7 pls. [60].

  Type species:

   Axinella polypoides Schmidt, 1862 by subsequent designation, see 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 [130].
• Chalinissa Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [771].

  Type species:

   Isodictya dissimilis Bowerbank, 1866 by subsequent designation, see Burton, M. 1927. A revision of the genera and species contained in Lendenfeld's 'Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes'. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 20: 289–296, 502–512 [502].
• Axinosia Hallmann, E.F. 1914. A revision of the monaxonid species described as new in Lendenfeld's 'Catalogue of the sponges in the Australian Museum'. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39(Part 2): 327–376 12 figs [349].

  Type species:

   Axinella symbiotica Whitelegge, 1907 by original designation.
• Pseudaxinella Schmidt, E.O. 1875. Spongien. Jahresbericht der Commission zur Wissenchaftlichen Untersuchung der Deutschen Meere in Kiel 2: 115-120 pl. 1 [120].

  Type species:

   Pseudaxinella sulcata Schmidt, 1875 by monotypy.
• Teichaxinella 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 [128] [for revised diagnosis, see Wiedenmayer, F. 1977. Shallow-water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel : Birkhäuser (Experientia Suppl. 28) 287 pp. 43 pls. (154)].

  Type species:

   Teichaxinella shoemakeri de Laubenfels, 1936 by original designation.
• Phakettia 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 [130].

  Type species:

   Phakellia cactoides Burton, 1928 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burton, M. 1927. A revision of the genera and species contained in Lendenfeld's 'Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes'. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 20: 289–296, 502–512 [502]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumtropical, temperate and amphiboreal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Timor Province (2), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

Ramose, bushy or lamellate habit. Surface generally smooth with choanosomal spicules projecting slightly; oscules, when visible, with stellate morphology (i.e., superficial canals leading to opening ‘imprinted’ in superficial skeleton); ectosome without specialised skeleton. Choanosomal skeleton differentiated in axial and extra-axial regions; axial skeleton compressed or vaguely reticulated; extra-axial skeleton plumose or plumoreticulate. Megascleres styles, or styles and oxeas, or oxeas; when both present, one type may be rare; modifications of megascleres common in several species. Microscleres, if present, microraphides and raphides, mostly in tightly packed trichodragmata.

 

ID Keys

See Family Axinellidae Diagnosis

 

Diagnosis References

Alvarez De Glasby, B. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Axinellidae Carter, 1875. pp. 724-747 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. [728]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)