Family CHONDRILLIDAE Gray, 1872
Compiler and date details
2010 - John N.A. Hooper, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Felix Wiedenmayer (1994), Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Basel, Switzerland; updated by John N.A. Hooper (1999)
Diagnosis
Demospongiae, encrusting to massive, with a marked cortex enriched with fibrillar collagen, with inhalant apertures localised in pore-sieves or cribriporal chones and a skeleton often absent, composed when present of nodular spongin fibres or aster microscleres only (never megascleres). Collagen always very abundant. Oviparous.
ID Keys
KEY TO GENERA
(1) Chondrosida with skeleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Chondrosida without skeleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
(2) Chondrosida with siliceous skeleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chondrilla
Chondrosida with spongin skeleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thymosia
(3) Chondrosida with a well developed cortex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chondrosia
Chondrosida with a thin cortex and a cuticle . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thymosiopsis
Diagnosis References
Boury-Esnault, N. 2002. Order Chondrosida Boury-Esnault & Lopes, 1985. Family Chondrillidae Gray, 1872. pp. 291-298 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. [291]
General References
Bergquist, P.R. 1978. Sponges. London : Hutchinson 268 pp. 12 pls 81 figs 15 tables.
Boury-Esnault, N. 2002. Order Chondrosida Boury-Esnault & Lopes, 1985. Family Chondrillidae Gray, 1872. pp. 291-298 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.
Brien, P., Lévi, C., Sarà, M., Tuzet, O. & Vacelet, J. 1973. Spongiaires. pp. 1-716 485 figs in Grassé, P.P. (ed.). Traité de Zoologie. Anatomie, Systématique, Biologie. Paris : Masson et Cie Vol. 3(1).
Hartman, W.D. 1982. Porifera. pp. 640-666 in Parker, S.P. (ed.). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. New York : McGraw-Hill Vol. 1.
Hechtel, G.J. 1965. A systematic study of the Demospongiae of Port Royal, Jamaica. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 20: i-iv 1-103 8 pls
Hechtel, G.J. 1969. New species and records of shallow-water Demospongiae from Barbados, West Indies. Postilla 132: 1-38
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
Thomas, P.A. 1973. Marine Demospongiae of Mahé Island in the Seychelles Bank (Indian Ocean). Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale Tervuren Belgique Zool. 203: 1-96 pls 1-8
Thomas, P.A. 1979. Studies on sponges of the Mozambique Channel. I. Sponges of Inhaca Island. II. Sponges of Mambone and Paradise Islands. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale Tervuren Belgique Zool. 227: 1-73
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
Wilson, H.V. 1925. Silicious and horny sponges collected by the U.S. Fisheries steamer Albatross during the Philippine Expedition, 1907–10. In Contributions to the biology of the Philippine Archipelago and adjacent regions. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 100(2/4): i-vii 273-532 pls 37-52
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) |