Genus Batzella Topsent, 1893
- Batzella Topsent, E. 1893. Nouvelle série de diagnoses d'Eponges de Roscoff et de Banyuls. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 1(1893, Notes Rev): xxxiii-xliii [xxxiv].
Type species:
Halichondria inops Topsent, 1891 by monotypy.
Distribution
States
Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Southern Ocean, New Zealand, W to central Pacific Ocean and Indo-Malayan region.
IMCRA
Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)
Distribution References
Diagnosis
Thinly encrusting to massive, with simple choanosomal skeleton of columns of strongyles, without a proper ectosomal skeleton. No further spicules. Half a dozen species from different parts of the world.
ID Keys
See Family Chondropsidae Diagnosis.
Diagnosis References
van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Chondropsidae Carter, 1886. pp. 521-527 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. [522]
General References
Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [69] (synonymy with Collosclerophora Dendy, 1917)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29-Mar-2018 | DEMOSPONGIAE Sollas, 1885 | 17-Sep-2014 | MODIFIED | ABRS |
| 29-Mar-2018 | 15-Dec-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 29-Mar-2018 | 13-Apr-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |