• 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

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]

History of changes

• Endectyon elyakovi Hooper, J.N.A. 1991. Revision of the family Raspailiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae), with descriptions of Australian species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5(6): 1179-1418 [1285].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM Z2957, Sunday Is., Shark Bay, WA.
  Paratype(s) RN P17 (NTM Z2738).

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 9–15 m.

General References

Hooper, J.N.A., List-Armitage, S.E., Kennedy, J.A., Cook, S.D. & Valentine, C.A. 1999. Sponges of the Low Isles, Great Barrier Reef: an important scientific site, or a case of mistaken identity? Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 249-262 [259] (Listed in this article)

History of changes

• Raspailia fruticosa Dendy, A. 1887. The sponge-fauna of Madras. A report on a collection of sponges obtained in the neighbourhood of Madras by Edgar Thurston, Esq. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 20: 153-165 pls 9-12 [160].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Madras, India.

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Hooper, J.N.A. 1991. Revision of the family Raspailiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae), with descriptions of Australian species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5(6): 1179-1418 [1290]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, filter-feeder, sessile.

History of changes

• Raspailia fruticosa aruensis Hentschel, E. 1912. Kiesel- und Hornschwämme der Aru- und Kai Inseln. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 34: 294-448 pls 13-21 [372].

  Type data:

   Holotype SMF 984, Sungai Barkai, Ambon Is., Arafura Sea.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Arafura Sea, also S Andaman Sea, Thailand.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 8–18 m.

History of changes

• Raspailia thurstoni Dendy, A. 1887. The sponge-fauna of Madras. A report on a collection of sponges obtained in the neighbourhood of Madras by Edgar Thurston, Esq. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 20: 153-165 pls 9-12 [161].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1887.8.4.9 wet, Coromandel coast, Madras, India.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

NW Shelf, and also vicinity of Madras, Bay of Bengal.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 40–82 m.

History of changes

• Spongia xerampelina Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de Monet 1814. Sur les polypiers empâtés. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 20: 294-312, 370-386, 432-458 [443].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHN Paris LBIM DT574 dry, precise locality uncertain, probably 'Australian Seas' (Péron and Lesueur Collection).

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Locality uncertain.

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

History of changes