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

Wiedenmayer, F. 1977. Shallow-water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel : Birkhäuser (Experientia Suppl. 28) 287 pp. 43 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

 

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Genus Chondrilla Schmidt, 1862

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Amphi-Atlantic, S Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, New Zealand(?), W and E Pacific Ocean (tropical).


IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Chondrillidae with a skeleton only composed of siliceous spicules of the aster type localised mainly in the cortex and around the canals.

 

ID Keys

Key to Australian species of ChondrilIa
1. Oxyasters present.................................. Chondrilla australiensis
Oxyasters absent........................................ 2
2. Oxysphaerasters present 1 small size ....Chondrilla linnaei
Oxysphaerasters present 2 sizes ............Chondrilla secunda

 

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. [293]

Fromont, J., Usher, K.L., Sutton, D.C., Toze, S. & Kuo, J. 2008. Species of the sponge genus Chondrilla (Demospongiae:Chondrosida: Chondrillidae) in Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 24: 469–486 [484]

 

History of changes

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Species Chondrilla australiensis Carter, 1873

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

NW Shelf, Houtman Abrolhos, Turtle Is., Westernport Bay, Port Jackson, also Red Sea, Indian Ocean and Indo-Malayan region.


IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 10–67 m.

 

General References

Davis, A.R., Fyfe, S.K., Turon, X. & Uriz, M.J. 2003. Size matters sometimes: wall height and the structure of subtidal benthic invertebrate assemblages in south-eastern Australia and Mediterranean Spain. Journal of Biogeography 30: 1797-1807 [1804] (Listed in this article)

Fromont, J. 1999. Demosponges of the Houtman Abrolhos. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 175-184 [177] (Listed in this article)

Fromont, J. 1999. Reproduction of some demosponges in a temperate Australian shallow water habitat. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 185-192 [186] (Listed in this article)

Fromont, J., Usher, K.L., Sutton, D.C., Toze, S. & Kuo, J. 2008. Species of the sponge genus Chondrilla (Demospongiae:Chondrosida: Chondrillidae) in Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 24: 469–486 [480]

Fromont, J. & Garson, M. 1999. Sponge bleaching on the West and east coasts of Australia. Coral Reefs 18: 340-340 [340] (Mentioned in this article)

Hooper, J.N.A., List-Armitage, S.E., Kennedy, J.A., Cook, S.D. & Valentine, C.A. 1999. Sponges of the Low Isles, Great Barrier Reef: an important scientific site, or a case of mistaken identity? Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 249-262 [257]

Lemloh, M.L., Fromont, J., Brümmer, F., & Usher, K.M. 2009. Diversity and abundance of photosynthetic sponges in temperate Western Australia. BMC Ecology 9(4): 1-13 [5]

Usher, K.M., Kuo, J., Fromont, J. & Sutton, D.C. 2001. Vertical transmission of cyanobacterial symbionts in the marine sponge Chondrilla australiensis (Demospongiae). Hydrobiologia 461: 15-23 [15]

Usher, K.M., Sutton, D.C., Toze, S., Kuo, J. & Fromont, J. 2004. Sexual reproduction in Chondrilla australiensis (Porifera: Demospongiae). Marine and Freshwater Research 55: 123-134 [117]

 

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Species Chondrilla linnaei Fromont, Usher, Sutton, Toze & Kuo, 2008

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Known from Maria I (Tas), Kangaroo I (SA), Esperance, Abany, Busselton and Jurien (WA), from 3-11m depth


IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

General References

Fromont, J., Usher, K.L., Sutton, D.C., Toze, S. & Kuo, J. 2008. Species of the sponge genus Chondrilla (Demospongiae:Chondrosida: Chondrillidae) in Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 24: 469–486 [472]

 

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Species Chondrilla mixta Schulze, 1877

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Christmas Is.; Flying Fish Cove, also Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region and W Pacific Ocean.


IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth intertidal–25 m.

 

General References

Usher, K.M., Sutton, D.C., Toze, S. Kuo, J. & Fromont, J. 2004. Biogeography and phylogeny of Chondrilla species (Demospongiae) in Australia. Marine Ecology Progress Series 270: 117-127 [117]

 

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Species Chondrilla nucula Schmidt, 1862

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Champion Bay, Low Isles, Port Phillip Heads, Westernport Bay, also S Atlantic Ocean, amphi-Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, W and E Pacific Ocean.


IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marinesessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 1–736 m.

 

General References

Usher, K.M., Sutton, D.C., Toze, S. Kuo, J. & Fromont, J. 2004. Biogeography and phylogeny of Chondrilla species (Demospongiae) in Australia. Marine Ecology Progress Series 270: 117-127 [117]

 

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Species Chondrilla secunda Lendenfeld, 1885

 

Distribution

States

Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Known from Port Phillip Bay and Westernport Bay (Vic), Kangaroo I and Spencer Gulf (SA), and Esperance, Albany and Jurien (WA)


IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

In 'Laminarian Zone' (zone of maximum algal growth).

 

General References

Fromont, J., Usher, K.L., Sutton, D.C., Toze, S. & Kuo, J. 2008. Species of the sponge genus Chondrilla (Demospongiae:Chondrosida: Chondrillidae) in Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 24: 469–486 [475]

Usher, K.M., Sutton, D.C., Toze, S. Kuo, J. & Fromont, J. 2004. Biogeography and phylogeny of Chondrilla species (Demospongiae) in Australia. Marine Ecology Progress Series 270: 117-127 [117]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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)