Genus Echinoclathria Carter, 1885

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Regional Maps

• Echinoclathria Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 16: 347-368 [355].

  Type species:

   Echinoclathria tenuis Carter, 1885 by subsequent designation, see Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [562].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

E Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region and Pacific Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Thickly encrusting, bulbous, claviform, bushy, digitate, lamellate, arborescent and flabellate growth forms; with two distinct skeletal components: (1) predominantly renieroid reticulate main skeleton cored by smaller, smooth principal styles, echinated by identical spicules (occasionally absent), typically very well developed spongin fibres sometimes slightly compressed at axis, more openly reticulate towards periphery; and (2) a vestigial radial extraaxial skeleton perched on the external surface, barely extending into choanosome, consisting of larger, smooth principal spicules, with identical geometry to those at core, forming radial or plumose brushes on surface. Ectosomal skeleton with single size class of auxiliary subtylostyle lying paratangentially or embedded perpendicular to surface. Microscleres include toxas and palmate isochelae.

 

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. [461]

 

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)