Genus Chonelasma Schulze, 1886
- Chonelasma Schulze, F.E. 1886. Ueber den Bau und des System der Hexactinelliden. Abhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin 1886: 1-97 [76].
Type species:
Chonelasma lamella Schulze, 1886 by subsequent designation, see Ijima, I. 1927. The Hexactinellida of the Siboga Expedition. 1-383 26 pls in Weber, M.W.C. (ed.). Siboga-Expeditie, livr. 106, monogr. 6. Leiden : J.E. Brill. [165].
Distribution
Extra Distribution Information
Amphi- and central Atlantic, Subantarctic, Antarctic, Japan, N and E Pacific.
Distribution References
- Burton, M. 1929. Porifera. Part 2. Antarctic sponges. In, British Antarctic (`Terra Nova') Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report. Zoology. 6(4): 393–458 pls 1–5. 393-458 pls 1-5 [396]
- Ijima, I. 1927. The Hexactinellida of the Siboga Expedition. 1-383 26 pls in Weber, M.W.C. (ed.). Siboga-Expeditie, livr. 106, monogr. 6. Leiden : J.E. Brill. [369]
- Koltun, V.M. 1967. The Hyalospongiae of the northern and far-eastern seas of the U.S.S.R. pp. 1-126 in, Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. Vol. 94 Published by the Zoological Institute, Akademia Nauk SSSR Moscow : Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka'. [in Russian] [24]
- Lévi, C. 1964. Spongiaires des zones bathyale, abyssale et hadale. 63-112 pls 2-11 in Wolff, T. (ed.). Galathea Report. Scientific results of the Danish Deep-Sea Expedition Round the World, 1950–1952. Copenhagen : Danish Science Press Vol. 7. [108]
- Topsent, E. 1928. Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert Ier de Monaco. Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco 74: 1-376 11 pls [20, 94]
Diagnosis
Dictyonal beams sparsely spined but thicker strands often smooth; spiny mesohexactins present in all species examined (unknown in one species); typical barbed uncinates and scopules with indistinct swellings on tine tips in all species; microscleres include oxyhexactins and oxyhexasters and/or discohexactins and discohexasters grading to onychexactins and onychexasters.
ID Keys
See Subfamily Chonelasmatinae Diagnosis
Diagnosis References
Reiswig, H. & Wheeler, B. 2002. Family Euretidae Zittel, 1877. pp. 1301-1331 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1320]
History of changes
Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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| 29-Mar-2018 | 28-Feb-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 29-Mar-2018 | 15-Apr-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |