Genus Chondropsis Carter, 1886

Museums

Regional Maps

• Burtonispongia 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 [52].

  Type species:

   Desmacidon australis Dendy, 1896 by original designation.
• Chondropsis Carter, H.J. 1886. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 17: 40-53, 112-127 [45] [as Chrondopsis, lapsus calami].

  Type species:

   Chondropsis arenifera Carter, 1886 by monotypy.
• Sigmatella Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [195].

  Type species:

   Sigmatella macropsamma Lendenfeld, 1888 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 [99].
• Collosclerophora Dendy, A. 1917. On the occurrence of gelatinous spicules, and their mode of origin, in a new genus of siliceous sponges. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 89: 315-322 pl. 11 [320].

  Type species:

   Collosclerophora arenacea Dendy, 1917 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Chondropsidae Carter, 1886. pp. 521-527 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. [522]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), 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)

Diagnosis

Sand sponges with feebly developed spicular skeletons consisting of strongyles. Very small sigmas may be found in a few species, and one species also has reduced arcuate chelae.

ID Keys

See Family Chondropsidae Diagnosis.

Diagnosis References

van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Chondropsidae Carter, 1886. pp. 521-527 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. [522]

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