Subgenus Callyspongia (Toxochalina) Ridley, 1884

Museums

Regional Maps

• Toxochalina Ridley, S.O. 1884. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. Alert, 1881–1882. Spongiida. (Part 1, Australian sponges). London : British Museum (Natural History) 366-482, pls 39-43. [402].

  Type species:

   Desmacidon folioides Bowerbank, 1875 by subsequent designation, see Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [540].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

Compact ramified subcylindrical branched growth form (Fig. 6 A, B), issuing from an enlarged basal portion. Surface conulose with a strong ectosomal network and strong fibres, numerous small conules. Oscula irregularly distributed. Consistency hard, strong. Ectosomal irregular network, three sizes of mesh around compact small conules, strong multispicular primary fibres, abundantly ramified (Fig. 6C). Mesh with abundant free oxeas and toxas. Choanosomal (Fig. 6D) strong network of compact multispicular primary fibres, irregularly distributed (Fig. 6E), abundantly ramified to form connective paucispicular fibres, as smaller network of tertiary uni to aspicular small fibres, similar to the surface network. Spongin scarce, present only to bind spicules. Spicules: straight oxeas, microscleres toxas.

ID Keys

See Family Callyspongiidae daignosis

Diagnosis References

Desqueyroux-Faundez, R. & Valentine, C. 2002. Family Callyspongiidae de Laubenfels, 1936. pp. 835-851 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. [844]

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