Subgenus Haliclona (Gellius) Gray, 1867

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gellius Gray, J.E. 1867. Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the description of some new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 492-558 pls 27-28.

  Type species:

   Reniera fibulata Schmidt, 1862 by original designation.
• Asychis Gray, J.E. 1867. Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the description of some new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 492-558 pls 27-28.

  Type species:

   Reniera fibulata Schmidt, 1862 by original designation.
• Orina Gray, J.E. 1867. Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the description of some new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 492-558 pls 27-28.

  Type species:

   Halichondria angulata Bowerbank, 1866 by original designation.
• Rhaphisia Topsent, E. 1892. Diagnoses d'Eponges nouvelles de la Méditerranée et plus particulièrement de Banyuls. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 2 10(Notes Rev.): xvii-xxviii.

  Type species:

   Rhaphisia laxa Topsent, 1892 by monotypy.
• Sigmadocia 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.

  Type species:

   Gellius textapatina de Laubenfels, 1930 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Weerdt, W. H. De 2002. Family Chalinidae Gray, 1867. pp. 852-873 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.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23), Macquarie Island Province (24), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Diagnosis

Cushion-shaped or submassive sponges, sometimes with a tendency to form fistular outgrowths. Consistency soft, fragile, sometimes slightly brittle. Spongin scarce or absent. Oxeas commonly robust needles of fairly large size, up to 370X15um. Microscleres are usually present, and may be toxas, sigmas or raphides or a combination of these.

ID Keys

See Genus Haliclona Diagnosis

Diagnosis References

Weerdt, W. H. De 2002. Family Chalinidae Gray, 1867. pp. 852-873 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. [859]

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