Genus Dragmacidon Hallmann, 1917
Compiler and date details
28/5/2010 - John Hooper
- Dragmacidon Hallmann, E.F. 1917. A revision of the genera with microscleres included, or provisionally included, in the family Axinellidae, with descriptions of some Australian species. Part 3. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 634-675 4 figs pls 29/3, 5-6, 33/6, 38/5 [639].
Type species:
Thrinacophora agariciformis Dendy, 1905 by original designation.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indian Ocean and E Pacific Ocean.
IMCRA
Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Other Regions
Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands
Distribution References
- Dickinson, M.G. 1945. Sponges of the Gulf of California. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 11(1): 1-55 pls 1-97 [27]
Diagnosis
Unbranched, club-shaped, lobate, shrub-like, thickly encrusting or massive habit. Surface more or less smooth with short conules or tubercles; oscules circular, flush or slightly elevated, sometimes with superficial canals leading to opening. Ectosome without specialised skeleton. Choanosomal skeleton plumoreticulate with ascending plumose tracts, anastomosing or interconnected by secondary multispicular tracts; not differentiated into axial or extra-axial regions. Megascleres oxeas and/or styles generally in similar proportions and dimensions. Microscleres if present, raphides in tightly packed trichodragmata.
ID Keys
See Family Axinellidae Diagnosis
Diagnosis References
Alvarez De Glasby, B. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Axinellidae Carter, 1875. pp. 724-747 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. [734]
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 | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |