Subgenus Hymedesmia (Stylopus) Fristedt, 1885

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stylopus Fristedt, K. 1885. Bidrag till Kännedomen om de vid Sveriges vestra Kust lefvande Spongiae. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 21: 1-56 pls 1-4 [28].

  Type species:

   Stylopus coriaceus Fristedt, 1885 by monotypy.
• Leptosia 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 [xxii] [junior homonym of Leptosia Hübner, 1818 (Lepidoptera) and Leptosia Guenée, 1841 (Lepidoptera)].

  Type species:

   Hymeniacidon dujardini Bowerbank, 1864 by subsequent designation, see 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 [88].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Diagnosis

Hymedesmia without microscleres.

ID Keys

See Genus Hymesdesmia Diagnosis

Diagnosis References

van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Hymedesmiidae Topsent, 1928. pp. 575-593 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. [582]

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