Genus Desmacella Schmidt, 1870

Museums

Regional Maps

• Desmacella Schmidt, E.O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des Atlantischen Gebietes. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 6 pls. [53].

  Type species:

   Desmacella pumilio Schmidt, 1870 by subsequent designation, see Dendy, A. 1922. Report on the Sigmatotetraxonida collected by H.M.S. Sealark in the Indian Ocean. In Report of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905. Vol. 7. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 18: 1-164 pls 1-18 [56].
• Tylodesma Thiele, J. 1903. Kieselschwämme von Ternate. II. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 25: 933-968 pl. 28 [944].

  Type species:

   Halichondria inornata Bowerbank, 1866 by subsequent designation, see Hallmann, E.F. 1916. A revision of the genera with microscleres included, or provisionally included, in the family Axinellidae, with descriptions of some Australian species. Part 2. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 495-552 6 figs pls 29/4, 30-32, 33/1-5, [518].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hooper, J.N.A. 1984. Sigmaxinella soelae and Desmacella ithystela, two new desmacellid sponges (Porifera, Axinellida, Desmacellidae) from the Northwest Shelf of Western Australia, with a revision of the family Desmacellidae. Monogr. Ser. N.T. Mus. Arts Sci. 2 xii 58 pp. [15]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Amphi-Atlantic, N Atlantic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, New Zealand, (Japan), amphi-Pacific, Subantarctic and Antarctic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Massive or thinly encrusting sponges with hispid surface. Reticulate, plumo-reticulate and vaguely halichondrioid choanosomal skeleton; poorly developed spongin fibres; megascleres tylostyles or styles of one or more sizes; microscleres sigmas and raphides. About 40 species distributed over all major areas of the oceans, predominantly in deeper waters.

 

ID Keys

See Family Desmacellidae Diagnosis.

 

Diagnosis References

Hajdu, E. & van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Desmacellidae Ridley & Dendy, 1886. pp. 642-650 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. [644]

 

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
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