Genus Chondrilla Schmidt, 1862

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chondrilla Schmidt, E.O. 1862. Die Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 7 pls. [38].

  Type species:

   Chondrilla nucula Schmidt, 1862 by subsequent designation, see 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 [182].
• Magog Sollas, W.J. 1888. Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 25(63): clxvi 1-458 44 pls 1 map [422].

  Type species:

   Chondrilla sacciformis Carter, 1879 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Wiedenmayer, F. 1977. Shallow-water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel : Birkhäuser (Experientia Suppl. 28) 287 pp. 43 pls. [186].
• Chondrillastra Topsent, E. 1918. Eponges de San Thomé. Essai sur les genres Spirastrella, Donatia et Chondrilla. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 57: 535-618 29 figs [603].

  Type species:

   Chondrilla australiensis Carter, 1873 by subsequent designation, see 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 [182].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wiedenmayer, F. 1977. Shallow-water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel : Birkhäuser (Experientia Suppl. 28) 287 pp. 43 pls. [186]

 

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).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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

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)