Genus Hemiasterella Carter, 1879

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• Hemiasterella Carter, H.J. 1879. On Holasterella, a fossil sponge of the Carboniferous Era, and on Hemiasterella, a new genus of Recent sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 3: 141-150 pl. 21 [146].

  Type species:

   Hemiasterella typus Carter, 1879 by indication.
• Epallax Sollas, W.J. 1886. Preliminary account of the tetractinellid sponges dredged by H.M.S. Challenger, 1872–1876. Part 1. The Choristida. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society ns 5: 177-199 [178].

  Type species:

   Epallax callocyathus Sollas, 1886 by monotypy.
• Kalastrella Kirkpatrick, R. 1903. Descriptions of South African sponges. Part iii. Bollettino dei Musei e degli Instituti Biologici della Università di Genova 2: 233-264 pls 5-6 [238].

  Type species:

   Kalastrella vasiformis Kirkpatrick, 1903 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dendy, A. 1922. Report on the Sigmatotetraxonida collected by H.M.S. Sealark in the Indian Ocean. In Report of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905. Vol. 7. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 18: 1-164 pls 1-18 [144]
• Voultsiadou-Koukoura, E. & Soest, R.W.M. Van 1991. Hemiastrella aristoteliana n.sp. (Porifera, Hadromerida) from the Aegean Sea with a discussion on the family Hemiasterellidae. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 61(1): 43-49 [6]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

S Africa, Indian Ocean and Indo-Malayan region.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Exclusively vasiform, plate-like or flattened branching growth forms; choanosomal and peripheral skeletons are loosely arranged more-or-less plumo-reticulate, without apparent axial compression or differentiation between axial and extra-axial regions, composed of styles and/or oxeas without functional arrangement to any particular part of skeleton; ectosomal euasters typically with thick, acanthose, strongylote rays, sometimes calthrops-like (rays reduced to 2–4, curved, asymmetrical or branching rays), predominant in peripheral region but not forming a surface crust.

 

ID Keys

See Family Hemiasterellidae Diagnosis.

 

Diagnosis References

Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Hemiasterellidae Lendenfeld, 1889. pp. 186-195 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. [189]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)