Genus Euryspongia Row, 1911
- Euryspongia Row, R.W.H. 1911. Report on the sponges collected by Mr. Cyril Crossland, 1904–5. Part II. Non-Calcarea. In Reports on the marine biology of the Sudanese Red Sea XIX. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology Zool. 31: 287-400 pls 35-41 [366].
Type species:
Euryspongia lactea Row, 1911 by monotypy.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
West Indian region, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, W Pacific and New Zealand.
IMCRA
Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Distribution References
Diagnosis
Encrusting, massive or branching growth form, often with a strongly conulose surface (e.g. Fig. 2B). The surface is marked by a delicate superficial tissue and sand network extending between conules and pore areas. The skeleton consists of laminated primary and secondary fibres. Only primary fibres are axially to fully cored, whereas secondary fibres are uncored. The primary network is regular, the secondary is irregular, branching and well-developed (Fig. 2C). Primary and secondary fibres are pithed, although this is often obscured by coring material in primary fibres at least. The sponge is typically very soft and compressible, to the point of being collapsible; sometimes made fragile by large amounts of foreign material incorporated into the sponge tissue.
ID Keys
See Family Dysideidae Diagnosis
Diagnosis References
Cook, S.D.C. & Bergquist, P.R. 2002. Family Spongiidae Gray, 1867. pp. 1051-1060 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. [1064]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 29-Mar-2018 | 15-Dec-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 29-Mar-2018 | 13-Apr-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |