Genus Farrea Bowerbank, 1862
- Farrea Bowerbank, J.S. 1862. On the anatomy and physiology of the Spongiadae. Part III. On the generic characters, the specific characters, and on the method of examination. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 152: 1087-1135 pls 72-74 [1091].
Type species:
Farrea occa Bowerbank, 1862 by original designation.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Cosmopolitan.
IMCRA
Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Western Province (6)
Distribution References
- Burton, M. 1954. Sponges. In The Rosaura Expedition, Pt. 5. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 2: 215-239 pl. 9 [217]
- Dendy, A. & Burton, M. 1926. Report on some deep-sea sponges from the Indian Museum collected by the R.I.M.S. Investigator. Part I. Hexactinellida and Tetraxonida (pars). Records of the Indian Museum 28: 225-248 7 figs [226]
- Ijima, I. 1927. The Hexactinellida of the Siboga Expedition. 1-383 26 pls in Weber, M.W.C. (ed.). Siboga-Expeditie, livr. 106, monogr. 6. Leiden : J.E. Brill. [367]
- Koltun, V.M. 1967. The Hyalospongiae of the northern and far-eastern seas of the U.S.S.R. pp. 1-126 in, Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. Vol. 94 Published by the Zoological Institute, Akademia Nauk SSSR Moscow : Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka'. [in Russian] [21]
- Lévi, C. 1964. Spongiaires des zones bathyale, abyssale et hadale. 63-112 pls 2-11 in Wolff, T. (ed.). Galathea Report. Scientific results of the Danish Deep-Sea Expedition Round the World, 1950–1952. Copenhagen : Danish Science Press Vol. 7. [105, 107, 110]
- Okada, Y. 1932. Report on the hexactinellid sponges collected by the United States Fisheries steamer Albatross in the north-western Pacific during the summer of 1906. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 2935 81: 1-118 pls 1-6 [30-42]
- Topsent, E. 1928. Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert Ier de Monaco. Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco 74: 1-376 11 pls [19, 82]
- Wiedenmayer, F. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994]
Diagnosis
Sceptrules as clavules; dermalia and atrialia as pentactins; microscleres as oxyhexasters with long primary rays with or without discohexasters; tylohexasters, pentasters, staurasters and diasters may occasionally occur; attached to hard substrate by spreading basal plate; body form varies from typical dichotomously branching and anastomosing tubes with open lateral branches to broad funnel to laterally undulated flat blade, and intermediates; primary dictyonal wall, seen in distal growing edges, as a regular, rectangular-meshed monolayer with dictyonal strands oriented longitudinally; primary wall not channelised; secondary dictyonalia added basally as one or more duplications of the organised primary layer or as irregularly joined dictyonalia; secondary layers may contain shallow epirhyses and/or aporhyses.
ID Keys
See Family Farreidae Diagnosis.
Diagnosis References
Reiswig, H. 2002. Family Farreidae Gray, 1872. pp. 1332-1340 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1336]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29-Mar-2018 | 28-Feb-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 29-Mar-2018 | 15-Apr-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |