Genus Fascaplysinopsis Bergquist, 1980
- Fascaplysinopsis Bergquist, P.R. 1980. A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida (Class Demospongiae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 7: 443-503 figs 1-25 pls [478].
Type species:
Aplysinopsis reticulata Hentschel, 1912 by monotypy.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region and Subantarctic.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Other Regions
Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands
Distribution References
Diagnosis
Unarmoured Thorectinae, with a sparse skeleton of massive primary and secondary fibres.
Surface marked by prominent conules and delicate tracery of sand, but no complete sand cortex; surface pigmentation (blackish) markedly different from choanosome (yellowish); texture firm, harsh in ethanol due to coarse nature of the fibres; primary fibres fasciculated and cored with detritus; secondary fibres not cored and branch in irregular fashion; fibre meshes together do not form a regular-meshed skeleton; adjacent components of the primary fascicles sometimes joined in ladder-like fashion producing a simple arrangement reminiscent of Thorecta; all fibres thick with visible pith; choanosomal region cavernous, typically gelatinous.
ID Keys
See Subfamily Thorectinae Diagnosis
Diagnosis References
Cook, S.D.C. & Bergquist, P.R. 2002. Family Thorectidae Bergquist, 1978. pp. 1028-1050 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. [1039]
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) |