Genus Isodictya Bowerbank, 1864

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• Cercidochela Kirkpatrick, R. 1907. Preliminary report on the Monaxonellida of the National Antarctic Expedition. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 20: 271-291 [284].

  Type species:

   Cercidochela lankesteri Kirkpatrick, 1907 by monotypy.
• Homoeodictya Ehlers, E. 1870. Die Esper'schen Spongien in der zoologischen Sammlung der K. Universität Erlangen. Erlangen : E.T. Jacob 36 pp. [17].

  Type species:

   Spongia digitata Esper, 1797 by monotypy.
• [Platychalina] Ehlers, E. 1870. Die Esper'schen Spongien in der zoologischen Sammlung der K. Universität Erlangen. Erlangen : E.T. Jacob 36 pp. [21] [regarded as synonym of Homoeodictya Ehlers, 1870 by Burton, M. 1936. Notes on sponges from South Africa, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 17: 141–147 (143), but according to Ehlers description it is clearly a haplosclerid, probably a synonym of Callyspongia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (see Soest, R.W.M. Van 1980. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part II. Haplosclerida. Stud. Fauna Curaçao 62(191): 1–173 49 figs 18 pls p. 59)].

  Type species:

   Spongia foliacea Esper, 1797 by indication.
• Neosperiopsis Laubenfels, M.W. de 1949. The sponges of Woods Hole and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 103(1): 1-55 [15].

  Type species:

   Neosperiopsis deichmannae de Laubenfels, 1949 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Diagnosis

Isodictyidae of flabellate/digitate growth forms; choanosomal skeleton reticulate or plumoreticulate (niphatid-like); megascleres are mostly diactinal, usually oxeas; microscleres, palmate isochelae, frequently with plate-like inner extensions of the falxes.

ID Keys

See Family Isodictyidae Diagnosis.

Diagnosis References

Hajdu, E. & Lobo-Hajdu, G. 2002. Family Isodictyidae Dendy, 1924. pp. 703-706 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. [704]

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