Subgenus Haliclona (Reniera) Schmidt, 1862

Museums

Regional Maps

• Reniera Schmidt, E.O. 1862. Die Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 7 pls.

  Type species:

   Reniera aquaeductus Schmidt, 1862 by subsequent designation, see Wiedenmayer, F. 1977. Shallow-water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel : Birkhäuser (Experientia Suppl. 28) 287 pp. 43 pls.
• Philotia 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:

   Isodictya varians Bowerbank, 1866 by monotypy.
• Prianos 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 cratera Schmidt, 1862 by original designation, see Schmidt, E.O. 1862. Die Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 7 pls.
• Toxadocia 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 abbreviatus Topsent, 1918 by original designation, see Topsent, E. 1918. Eponges de San Thomé. Essai sur les genres Spirastrella, Donatia et Chondrilla. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 57: 535-618 29 figs.
• Kallypilidion Laubenfels, M.W. de 1954. The sponges of the West-Central Pacific. Oregon State Monographs. Studies in Zoology 7: 1-306 pls 1-12.

  Type species:

   Kallypilidion poseidon de Laubenfels, 1954 by monotypy.
• Reniclona Laubenfels, M.W. de 1954. The sponges of the West-Central Pacific. Oregon State Monographs. Studies in Zoology 7: 1-306 pls 1-12.

  Type species:

   Isodictya permollis Bowerbank, 1866 by original designation, see Bowerbank, J.S. 1866. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. London : Ray Society Vol. 2 388 pp.

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

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Macquarie Island Province (24), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Diagnosis

Delicate sponges with a cushion-shaped or encrusting, laterally spreading growth form, also masses of anastomosing slender branches intermittently and loosely attached to the substratum, or clusters of tubes; some species have a tendency to form long, thin, blind-ending proliferations. Oscula at the end of oscular chimneys or mounds, or flush with the surface. Consistency varying from soft, compressible but fragile to moderately firm. Several species produce slime strands when torn apart. Colour commonly bright, varying from purple, violet to orange and yellow. Surface smooth, even. Ectosomal skeleton, if present, a regular, tangential, unispicular, isotropic, reticulation. Choanosomal skeleton also a delicate, regular, unispicular, isotropic reticulation. Spongin always present at the nodes of the spicula, but never abundant. Oxeas frequently bluntpointed or strongylote. Microscleres, if present, toxas and sigmas.

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. [867]

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