Genus Corticium Schmidt, 1862

Museums

Regional Maps

• Corticium Schmidt, E.O. 1862. Die Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 7 pls. [42].

  Type species:

   Corticium candelabrum Schmidt, 1862 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Mediterranean Sea, West Indian region, N Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, W Pacific and Indo-Malayan region.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Thinly encrusting to cushion-shaped Plakinidae with a spiculation consisting almost exclusively of non-lophose calthrops in one size class and heterolophose calthrops (‘candelabra’; Fig. 2H). Homolophose calthrops may also be present (Fig. 2D), and nonlophose calthrops are absent in some species. Aquiferous system leuconoid, with aphodal choanocyte chambers, and about 300 choanocytes per chamber (Boury-Esnault et al., 1984). The species of this genus present variable but usually thick cortex (100– 300um), and a proportion of mesohyl to chambers of about 1 : 1 (Boury-Esnault et al. 1995).

 

ID Keys

See Family Plakinidae Diagnosis.

 

Diagnosis References

Muricy, G. & Diaz, M. C. 2002. Order Homosclerophorida Dendy, 1905. Family Plakinidae Schulze, 1880. pp. 71-82 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. [76]

 

General References

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] [342] (in synonymy with Achinoe Gray, 1867)

Muricy, G., Sarmento, K., Lage, A., Almeida, A.C. & Fromont, J. 2021. Taxonomy of some Indian and Pacific oceans Corticium, with the description of three new species from Western Australia (Porifera: Homosclerophorida). Zootaxa 4981(1): 47-69

 

History of changes

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29-Mar-2018		28-Feb-2012	MODIFIED
29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)