Genus Candidaspongia Bergquist, Sorokin & Karuso, 1999

Museums

Regional Maps

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

Lamellate sponges, with a slightly roughened oscular face and a finely conulose poral face (Fig. 8G–H). The surface is heavily armoured with sand, which is consistent in its size and composition, producing a brilliant white colour. The regular fibre skeleton comprises cored, simple primary fibres, and uncored secondary fibres which form a polygonal network (Fig. 8I). The consistency is firm, flexible and compressible. The wide mouthed, spherical choanocyte chambers are notably large for Thorectidae.

ID Keys

See Subfamily Phyllospongiinae Diagnosis

Diagnosis References

Cook, S.D.C. & Bergquist, P.R. 2002. Family Thorectidae Bergquist, 1978. pp. 1028-1050 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. [1049]

History of changes