Genus Hymenancora Lundbeck, 1910

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hymenancora Lundbeck, W. 1910. Porifera (Part III). Desmacidonidae (pars). Danish Ingolf-Expedition 6(3): 1-124 pls 1-11 [116].

  Type species:

   Leptosia umbellifera Topsent, 1904 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 [87].
• Jelissima 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 [79].

  Type species:

   Hymedesmia tenuissima Thiele, 1905 by original designation.
• Arndtancora 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 [110].

  Type species:

   Leptosia sirventi Topsent, 1927 by original designation.
• Hymesigmia Topsent, E. 1927. Diagnoses d'Eponges nouvelles recueillies par le Prince Albert Ier de Monaco. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco 502: 1-19 [14].

  Type species:

   Hymesigmia japycina Topsent, 1927 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wiedenmayer, F. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994] [220]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

NE and central Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, SE Pacific Ocean and Antarctic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Encrusting, with smooth or papillate surface; ectosomal skeleton with smooth ectosomal strongyles or styles, occasionally with polytylote tyles; choanosomal skeleton hymedesmioid with acanthostyles erect on the substrate, often in two functional categories, structural and echinating; microscleres are isochelae – occasionally anisochelae – often with polydentate alae, and sigmas, which are often absent. Approximately 20 species.

 

ID Keys

See Family Myxillidae Diagnosis

 

Diagnosis References

van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Myxillidae Dendy, 1922. pp. 602-620 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. [605]

 

History of changes

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29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
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