Genus Calyx Vosmaer, 1885

Museums

Regional Maps

• Calyx Vosmaer, G.C.J. 1885. Porifera. In Bronn, H.G. Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thierreichs 2: 177-368 pls 19-25 [337].

  Type species:

   Calyx lieberkuehni Vosmaer, 1885 by monotypy (unnecessary replacement name for Lieberkuehnia calyx (Nardo) Balsamo-Crivelli, 1863, nom. nud. =Reniera? calyx Schmidt, 1862 = Calyx nicaeensis (Risso, 1826)).
• Vagocia 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 [133].

  Type species:

   Gellius arcuarius Topsent, 1913 (=Calyx arcuarius (Topsent, 1913)) by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wiedenmayer, F. 1977. Shallow-water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel : Birkhäuser (Experientia Suppl. 28) 287 pp. 43 pls. [118]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Antarctic, Subantarctic, also Mediterranean Sea and New Zealand.

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Massive, caliculate (Fig. 2A), short pedunculate, lamellar (Fig. 3A, C, Calyx arcuarius as Vagocia) or coalescent tubular growth forms, with tubular processes or fistulae may be present. Surface consists of a multilayered, compact ectosomal network, under the surface-membrane (Figs 2B, 3B), with a close-knit unispicular network containing spongin at nodes and scattered free spicules with numerous sphaerulous cells. These cells, brown pigmented or uncoloured, give to the sponge its dark or clear brown colour. Small oscules present in the internal part of the calyx (Fig. 2C), or absent. Choanosomal skeleton composed of long, disorientated, entangled spicular tracts, longitudinal in the interior of the body (Fig. 2D), and tangential to the surface in the periphery (Fig. 2B). Between the fibres there is a connecting unispicular reticulation (Figs 2D, 3D). Spongin in variable amount. Megascleres are oxeas, of two size categories, bent at the center, with conical points. Microscleres toxas (Fig. 3D, in Calyx arcuarius).

 

ID Keys

See Family Phloeodictyidae Diagnosis.

 

Diagnosis References

Desqueyroux-Faundez, R. & Valentine, C. 2002. Family Phloeodictyidae Carter, 1882. pp. 893-905 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. [895]

 

History of changes

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