Subgenus Endectyon (Endectyon) Topsent, 1920

Museums

Regional Maps

• Endectyon Topsent, E. 1920. Spongiaires du Musée zoologique de Strasbourg. Monaxonides. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco 381: 1-36 [25].

  Type species:

   Phakellia tenax Schmidt, 1870 by original designation.
• Hemectyon Topsent, E. 1920. Spongiaires du Musée zoologique de Strasbourg. Monaxonides. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco 381: 1-36 [27].

  Type species:

   Raspailia hamata Schmidt, 1870 by original designation (as Raspailia (?) hamata Schmidt, 1870).
• Basiectyon Vacelet, J. 1961. Spongiaires (démosponges) de la région de Bonifacio (Corse). Recueil des Travaux de la Station Marine d'Endoume. Marseille 36(22): 21-45 [37].

  Type species:

   Basiectyon pilosus Vacelet, 1961 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hooper, J.N.A. 1991. Revision of the family Raspailiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae), with descriptions of Australian species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5(6): 1179-1418 [1284]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Diagnosis

Arborescent growth form; with a compressed axial skeleton cored by stout choanosomal principal styles, and plumose extraaxial skeleton cored by long subectosomal auxiliary styles producing a hispid surface, surrounded by bundles of ectosomal auxiliary styles at the surface. Echinating acanthostyles are confined to outside the axial skeleton, and have recurved (clavulate) hooks on both ends but lack any basal rhabd.

ID Keys

See Family Raspailiidae Diagnosis

Diagnosis References

Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Raspailiidae Hentschel, 1923. pp. 469-510 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. [485]

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