Subgenus Clathria (Clathria) Schmidt, 1862
- Clathria Schmidt, E.O. 1862. Die Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 7 pls. [57].
Type species:
Clathria compressa Schmidt, 1862 by subsequent designation, see Schmidt, E.O. 1864. Supplement der Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. Enthaltend die Histiologie und systematische Ergänzungen. Leipzig : Engelmann 48 pp. 4 pls. [35]. - Antherochalina Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [741] [in part].
Type species:
Antherochalina crassa Lenderfeld, 1887 by subsequent designation, see Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [558]. - Dictyociona Topsent, E. 1913. Spongiaires de l'Expédition Antarctique Nationale écossaise. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 49(3): 579-643 pls 1-6 [618].
Type species:
Microciona discreta Thiele, 1905 by monotypy. - Allocia Hallmann, E.F. 1920. New genera of monaxonid sponges related to the genus Clathria. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 44: 767-792 3 figs pls 36-40 [768].
Type species:
Spanioplon cheliferum Hentschel, 1911 by monotypy. - Marleyia Burton, M. 1931. On a collection of marine sponges mostly from the Natal coast. Annals of the Natal Museum 6: 337-358 9 figs pl. 23 [346] [junior homonym of Marleyia Distant, 1909 (Hemiptera)].
Type species:
Marleyia irregularis Burton, 1931 by original designation. - Thalyseurypon 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 [107].
Type species:
Spongia raphanus Lamarck, 1814 by original designation. - Ramoses 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 [109].
Type species:
Clathria pauper Brøndsted, 1927 by original designation. - Labacea 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 [125].
Type species:
Clathria juncea Burton, 1931 by original designation. - Ligrota 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 [125].
Type species:
Clathria lobata Vosmaer, 1880 by original designation. - Litaspongia Laubenfels, M.W. de 1954. The sponges of the West-Central Pacific. Oregon State Monographs. Studies in Zoology 7: 1-306 pls 1-12 [162].
Type species:
Ophlitaspongia arbuscula Row, 1911 by original designation. - Bipocillopsis Koltun, V.M. 1964. Sponges of the Antarctic. Part 1. Tetraxonida and Cornacuspongida. 6-116, 428-433 (systematic index), pls 1-15 in Pavlovskii, E.P., Andriyashev, A.P. & Ushakov, P.V. (eds). Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Zoological Institute: Explorations of the fauna of the seas II (X). Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955–1958). Moscow : Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka' Vol. 2. [in Russian] [79].
Type species:
Bipocillopsis nexus Koltun, 1964 by monotypy.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Hooper, J.N.A. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994] [257]
- Hooper, J.N.A. 1996. Revision of Microcionidae (Porifera: Poecilosclerida: Demospongiae), with description of Australian species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 40: 1-626 [Date published 01/06/1996] [88]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Cosmopolitan.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)
Other Regions
Australian Antarctic Territory
Distribution References
- Bergquist, P.R. & Fromont, J. 1988. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 4 (Poecilosclerida). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 96: 1-197 pls 1-57
- van Soest, R.W.M. 1984. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part III. Poecilosclerida. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 66(199): 1-167 pls 1-10
Diagnosis
Predominantly massive, lamellate, digitate, flabellate or arborescent growth forms; ectosomal skeleton composed of a single undifferentiated category of auxiliary megasclere; choanosomal skeletal structure plumo-reticulate or reticulate, usually without marked difference between axial and extra-axial regions; spongin fibres cored by completely smooth, basally spined or partially spined principal megascleres, geometrically differentiated from auxiliary megascleres, but sometimes secondarily lost; echinating megascleres entirely or partially acanthose, occasionally smooth, sometimes secondarily lost. Microscleres include palmate isochelae and modified forms, and toxas with smooth or spined points.
ID Keys
See Family Microcionidae Diagnosis
Diagnosis References
Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Microcionidae Carter, 1875. pp. 432-468 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. [437]
History of changes
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