Genus Jaspis Gray, 1867

Museums

Regional Maps

• Jaspis 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 [526].

  Type species:

   Vioa johnstoni Schmidt, 1862 by monotypy.
• Coppatias Sollas, W.J. 1888. Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 25(63): clxvi 1-458 44 pls 1 map [206].

  Type species:

   Stellettinopsis coriacea Carter, 1886 by original designation.
• Astropeplus Sollas, W.J. 1888. Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 25(63): clxvi 1-458 44 pls 1 map [416].

  Type species:

   Astropeplus pulcher Sollas, 1888 by monotypy.
• Dorypleres Sollas, W.J. 1888. Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 25(63): clxvi 1-458 44 pls 1 map [426].

  Type species:

   Dorypleres dendyi Sollas, 1888 by monotypy.
• Astroplakina Dendy, A. & Burton, M. 1926. Report on some deep-sea sponges from the Indian Museum collected by the R.I.M.S. Investigator. Part I. Hexactinellida and Tetraxonida (pars). Records of the Indian Museum 28: 225-248 7 figs.
• Zaplathea Laubenfels, M.W. de 1950. The sponges of Kaneohe Bay, Oahu. Pacific Science 4(1): 3-36 [32].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dendy, A. 1916. Report on the Homosclerophora and Astrotetraxonida collected by H.M.S. Sealark in the Indian Ocean. In Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905. Vol. 6. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 17: 225-271 pls 44-48 [252]
• Bergquist, P.R. 1968. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 1 (Tetractinomorpha and Lithistida). Bulletin of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 188: 1-105 15 pls 30 figs [33]
• Wiedenmayer, F. 1977. Shallow-water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel : Birkhäuser (Experientia Suppl. 28) 287 pp. 43 pls. [172]
• Kennedy, J.A. 2000. Resolving the 'Jaspis stellifer' complex. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45(2): 453-476 [453]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Amphi-Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, New Zealand, Japan and W Pacific (Micronesia).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Encrusting or massive sponges without triaenes; choanosomal skeleton composed of oxeas irregularly interlaced, ectosomal skeleton formed by a layer of paratangential oxeas, generally smaller than those in the choanosome; microscleres are euasters without a centrum (never spherasters).

 

ID Keys

See Family Acorinidae Diagnosis.

 

Diagnosis References

Uriz, M. J. 2002. Family Ancorinidae, 1870. pp. 108-126 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. [114]

 

History of changes

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