Genus Ircinia Nardo, 1833
Type species:
Spongia fasciculata (Pallas) Schmidt, 1862 by subsequent designation, see Laubenfels, M.W. de 1948. The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 3: 1-217 31 figs 30 pls [66].- Hircinia Nardo, G.D. 1834. De spongiis. Isis Oken, coll. 714–716. [714] [unjustified emendation of Ircinia Nardo, 1833].
Type species:
Spongia fasciculata (Pallas) Schmidt, 1862 by subsequent designation, see Laubenfels, M.W. de 1948. The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 3: 1-217 31 figs 30 pls [66]. - Stematumenia Bowerbank, J.S. 1845. Observations on the Spongiadae, with descriptions of some new genera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 16: 400-410 pls 13-14 [406].
Type species:
Stematumenia scyphus Bowerbank, 1845 by monotypy. - Filifera Lieberkühn, N. 1859. Neue Beiträge zur Anatomie der Spongien. Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und Wissenschaftliche Medecin 1859: 353-382 515-529 pls 9-11 [353].
Type species:
Filifera verrucosa Lieberkühn, 1859 by subsequent designation, see Laubenfels, M.W. de 1948. The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 3: 1-217 31 figs 30 pls [128]. - Polytherses Duchassaing, F.P. de & Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Bataafsche Hollandsche Maatschappye der Wetenschappen te Haarlem 2 21: 1-124 pls 1-25 [67].
Type species:
Polytherses linguiformis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 by subsequent designation, see Laubenfels, M.W. de 1948. The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 3: 1-217 31 figs 30 pls [131]. - Euricinia Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. Die Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse der Hornschwämme. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 4: 1-93 [58] [in key].
Type species:
Hircinia variabilis dendroides Schmidt, 1862 (=Ircinia dendroides (Schmidt, 1862)) (as variety) 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]. - Hircinella Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. Die Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse der Hornschwämme. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 4: 1-93 [58] [in key].
Type species:
Cacospongia collectrix Poléjaeff, 1884 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]. - Dysidicinia Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. Die Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse der Hornschwämme. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 4: 1-93 [58] [in key].
Type species:
Hircinia longispina Duchassaing & Michelotti, 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].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Bergquist, P.R. 1980. A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida (Class Demospongiae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 7: 443-503 figs 1-25 pls [464]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Amphi-Atlantic, Arctic, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, South Africa, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, Japan, New Zealand, W and E Pacific, Subantarctic and Antarctic.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)
Distribution References
Diagnosis
Species of Ircinia display a wide range of forms, with an unarmoured, conulose surface, and a skeleton of primary and secondary fibres, and filaments (Fig. 1C–D). Primary fibres are cored with foreign debris, and form massive fascicles. Secondary fibres are simple and uncored. The consistency of these sponges is soft to firm, though they are extremely tough, and are often difficult to cut or tear. Species of Ircinia also typically have a strong, pungent, sulphurous smell.
ID Keys
See Family Irciniidae Diagnosis
Diagnosis References
Cook, S.D.C. & Bergquist, P.R. 2002. Family Irciniidae Gray, 1867. pp. 1022-1027 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. [1022]
General References
Bergquist, P.R. 1980. A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida (Class Demospongiae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 7: 443-503 figs 1-25 pls (Dysidicinia Lendenfeld, 1889 erroneously cited as a synonym of Sarcotragus Schmidt, 1862, although all four species originally included are assigned to Ircinia Nardo, 1833 therein)
History of changes
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