Subgenus Forcepia (Forcepia) Carter, 1874

Museums

Regional Maps

• Marcusoldia Laubenfels, M.W. de 1936. A discussion of the sponge fauna of the Dry Tortugas in particular, and the West Indies in general, with material for a revision of the families and orders of the Porifera. (Tortugas Lab. Paper No. 467). Publication of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Washington 30: 1-225 22 pls 1 map [87].

  Type species:

   Leptolabis tenuissima Hentschel, 1911 by original designation.
• Forcepia Carter, H.J. 1874. Descriptions and figures of deep-sea sponges and their spicules from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S. Porcupine, chiefly in 1869; with figures and descriptions of some remarkable spicules from the Agulhas Shoal and Colon, Panama. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 14: 207-221, 245-257 pls 13-15 [210].

  Type species:

   Forcepia colonensis Carter, 1874 by monotypy.
• Ectoforcepia Cabioch, L. 1968. Contribution à la connaissance de la faune des spongiaires de la Manche occidentale. Démosponges de la région de Roscoff. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 2: 211-246 [232] [treated as a subgenus of Forcepia Carter, 1874 by Soest, R.W.M. Van 1984. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part III. Poecilosclerida. Stud. Fauna Curaçao 66(199): 1–167 pls 1–10 (66, 69)].

  Type species:

   Forcepia carteri Dendy, 1896 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• van Soest, R.W.M. 1984. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part III. Poecilosclerida. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 66(199): 1-167 pls 1-10 [66, 69]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Diagnosis

Forcepia with reticulate skeleton and lacking echinating acanthostyles.

ID Keys

See Genus Forcepia Diagnosis

Diagnosis References

van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Coelosphaeridae Dendy, 1922. pp. 528-546 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. [533]

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