Genus Hymeniacidon Bowerbank, 1859
- Hymeniacidon Bowerbank, J.S. 1859. On the anatomy and physiology of the Spongiadae. Part I. On the spicula. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 148: 279-332 pls 23-26 [286].
Type species:
Hymeniacidon caruncula Bowerbank, 1859 by subsequent designation, see Bowerbank, J.S. 1864. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. London : Ray Society Vol. 1 290 pp. 37 pls. [191]. - Amorphilla Thiele, J. 1898. Studien über pazifische Spongien. I. Zoologica (New York) 24: 1-72 pls 1-8 [44].
Type species:
Amorphilla sanguinea Grant, 1829 by original designation. - Thieleia Burton, M. 1932. Sponges. Discovery Reports 6: 237-392 56 figs pls 48-57 [329].
Type species:
Hymeniacidon rubiginosa Thiele, 1905 by monotypy. - Uritaia Burton, M. 1932. Report on a collection of sponges made in South Saghalin by Mr. Tomoe Urita. Science Reports of the Tôhoku University 4 7: 195-206 6 figs pls 7-8 [198].
Type species:
Uritaia halichondroides Burton, 1932 by monotypy. - Rhaphidostyla Burton, M. 1935. Notes on British sponges, with a description of a new genus and species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 15: 651-653 [652].
Type species:
Rhaphidostyla kitchingi Burton, 1935 by original designation. - Stylotella Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [185].
Type species:
Stylotella digitata Lendenfeld, 1888 by subsequent designation, see Hallmann, E.F. 1914. A revision of the monaxonid species described as new in Lendenfeld's 'Catalogue of the sponges in the Australian Museum'. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39(Part 2): 327–376 12 figs [348]. - Stylinos Topsent, E. 1891. Essai sur la faune des Spongiaires de Roscoff. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 2 9: 523-554 pl. 22 figs 1-8 [528] [frequent and erroneous citation in the literature as first published in Topsent, E. 1892. Contribution à l'étude des Spongiaires de l'Atlantique Nord. Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I 2: 1–165 11 pls (135) (with Stylinos jullieni Topsent, 1892 as type species].
Type species:
Isodictya uniformis Bowerbank, 1864 by subsequent designation, see 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]. - Ulosa 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 [126].
Type species:
Spongia angulosa Lamarck, 1814 by original designation. - Stylaxinella Vacelet, J. 1960. Eponges de la Méditerranée nord-occidentale récoltées par le 'Président-Théodore-Tissier' 1958. Revue des Travaux de l'Institut des Pêches Maritimes 24: 257–272 [264] [intended to replace Stylinos Topsent, 1891, of which the type species is misquoted as Stylinos jullieni Topsent, 1892, and of which a resumé is given concerning Topsent's use in 1892 and thereafter].
Type species:
Spongia stuposa Esper, 1791 by original designation (junior homonym of Spongia stuposa Ellis & Solander, 1786). - Laxosuberites Topsent, E. 1896. Matériaux pour servir à l'étude de la faune des Spongiaires de France. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 9: 113-133 [126].
Type species:
Suberites rugosus Schmidt, 1868 by original designation. - Stylohalina Kirk, H.B. 1909. Two sponges from Campbell Island. 539-541 pl. 25 in Chilton, C. (ed.). The Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand. Canterbury, New Zealand : Christchurch Philosophical Institute of Canterbury Vol. 2. [539].
Type species:
Stylochalina conica Kirk, 1909 by monotypy. - Rhaphoxiella Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [554].
Type species:
Batzella cortica Thiele, 1905 by original designation. - Nailondra Laubenfels, M.W. de 1954. The sponges of the West-Central Pacific. Oregon State Monographs. Studies in Zoology 7: 1-306 pls 1-12 [182].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- van Soest, R.W.M., Diaz, M.C. & Pomponi, S.A. 1990. Phylogenetic classification of the halichondrids (Porifera, Demospongiae). Beaufortia 40(2): 15-62 (full generic synonymy)
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Cosmopolitan.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)
Other Regions
Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)
Distribution References
- Bergquist, P.R. 1970. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 2 (Axinellida and Halichondrida). (Mem. N.Z. Oceanogr. Inst. 51). Bulletin of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 197: 1-85 20 pls 3 figs [35]
- Burton, M. 1932. Sponges. Discovery Reports 6: 237-392 56 figs pls 48-57 [328]
- Koltun, V.M. 1959. The Cornacuspongida of the northern and far eastern seas of the U.S.S.R. pp. 1-236 43 pls in, Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. Vol. 67 Published by the Zoological Institute, Akademia Nauk SSSR. [in Russian] [207]
- 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 [137]
Diagnosis
Encrusting to massive, lobate or occasionally irregularly branching growth forms. Surface irregularly papillate, grooved, corrugated or smooth. Ectosomal skeleton is a thin tangential or paratangential crust, often incomplete, membranous, detachable or coming off in flakes, containing styles or stylotes. Choanosomal skeleton varies from truly confused to disorganised with wispy, slightly plumose ascending spicule tracts of styles or stylotes. Most species have a characteristic fleshy consistency; oxeas have been lost completely and megascleres consist only of styles or stylotes. Several dozens of species, predominantly from temperate and colder waters, but several tropical species have been reliably reported.
ID Keys
See Family Halichondriidae Diagnosis.
Diagnosis References
Erpenbeck, D. & van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. pp. 787-816 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. [807]
History of changes
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| 29-Mar-2018 | 13-Apr-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |