Genus Iophon Gray, 1867

Museums

Regional Maps

• Iophon 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 [534].

  Type species:

   Halichondria scandens Bowerbank, 1866 by subsequent designation, see Dendy, A. 1924. Porifera. Part 1. Non-antarctic sponges. pp. 269–392 pls 1–15 in, British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report, Zoology Vol. 6. [347].
• Alebion 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 [534] [junior homonym of Alebion Kräyer, 1863 (Crustacea)].

  Type species:

   Halichondria hyndmani Bowerbank, 1866 by monotypy.
• Pocillon Topsent, E. 1893. Nouvelle série de diagnoses d'Eponges de Roscoff et de Banyuls. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 1(1893, Notes Rev): xxxiii-xliii [xxxiv].

  Type species:

   Halichondria hyndmani Bowerbank, 1866 by subsequent designation, see Burton, M. 1932. Sponges. Discovery Reports 6: 237-392 56 figs pls 48-57 [295].
• Iophonopsis Dendy, A. 1924. Porifera. Part 1. Non-antarctic sponges. pp. 269–392 pls 1–15 in, British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report, Zoology Vol. 6. [348].

  Type species:

   Halichondria nigricans Bowerbank, 1866 by original designation.
• Burtonella Laubenfels, M.W. de 1928. A new genus and species of sponge from Puget Sound. Publications Puget Sound Biological Station / University of Washington 5: 361-363 [361].

  Type species:

   Burtonella melanokhemia de Laubenfels, 1928 by original designation.
• Iophonata 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 [63].

  Type species:

   Iophon aceratus Hentschel, 1914 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burton, M. 1932. Sponges. Discovery Reports 6: 237-392 56 figs pls 48-57 [295]
• Koltun, V.M. 1964. Sponges of the Antarctic. Part 1. Tetraxonida and Cornacuspongida. 6-116, 428-433 (systematic index), pls 1-15 in Pavlovskii, E.P., Andriyashev, A.P. & Ushakov, P.V. (eds). Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Zoological Institute: Explorations of the fauna of the seas II (X). Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955–1958). Moscow : Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka' Vol. 2. [in Russian] [57]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Arctic, amphi-N Atlantic Ocean, N Atlantic Ocean, S and SW Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, S Africa, Southern Ocean, New Zealand, NE and SE Pacific Ocean, Antarctic and Subantarctic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Non-fistulose, massive, branching or encrusting growth forms; ectosomal skeleton composed of tylotes with microspined bases, lying tangential to surface, intercrossing and in erect brushes; choanosomal skeleton an isodictyal rounded, triangular or square-meshed reticulation of smooth or spined choanosomal styles, arranged singly or in 2–3 per row, with (s.l.) or without (s.s.) echinating acanthostyles; microscleres inequiended bipocilla and palmate anisochelae with spurs, toxas absent.

 

ID Keys

See Family Acarnidae Diagnosis.

 

Diagnosis References

Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Acarnidae Dendy, 1922. pp. 412-431 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. [422]

 

History of changes

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