Order LEUCOSOLENIDA Hartman, 1958

Introduction

2004 INTRODUCTION
Now recognised to include nine families.

 

Diagnosis

Calcaronea with a skeleton composed of exclusively free spicules, without calcified non-spicular reinforcements. The aquiferous system is asconoid, syconoid, sylleibid, or leuconoid. In the latter case, the radial organisation around a central atrium can generally be detected by a well-formed atrial skeleton tangential to the atrial wall, and/or a subatrial skeleton consisting of subatrial tri- or tetractines with the paired actines tangential to the atrial wall and the unpaired actine perpendicular to it. The post-larval development passes (presumably always) through an olynthus stage.

 

ID Keys

KEY TO GENERA
(1) Homocoel organisation: all the internal cavities are lined by the choanoderm------------------------------------------2
Heterocoel organisation; with separate choanocyte chambers and an exhalant aquiferous system devoid of choanocytes, with or without a separate inhalant system--------------------------------------------------------------------4

(2) Skeleton contains only diactines-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ascyssa
Skeleton composed of diactines, triactines and/or tetractines---------------------------------------------------------------3

(3) Giant longitudinal diactines forming a continuous layer on the external surface-----------------------------Ascute
No giant longitudinal diactines----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Leucosolenia

(4) Skeleton composed exclusively of diactines---------------------------------------------------------------------Sycyssa
Skeleton composed of diactines, triactines and/or tetractines--------------------------------------------------------------5

(5) Sponge body composed of a central atrial tube bearing, at least in its median region, radial tubes lined with choanoderm and ending in conspicuous distal cones that are frequently crowned by tufts of radial diactines------6
Sponge body covered by a cortex supported by tangential spicules----------------------------------------------------10

(6) Elongate radial tubes regularly arranged around the central tube are completely separate from one another; no inhalant aquiferous system, the incurrent water enters directly through pores into the radial choanocyte chambers-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sycetta
Radial tubes are coalescent at least in their proximal region------------------------------------------------------------7

(7) Radial tubes are parallel and regularly arranged and are occasionally ramified in their distal part. Radial tubes are coalescent for most of their length, with inhalant canals in between that open to the outer surface between the distal cones through ostia--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------8
A thin sponge wall consisting of the atrial skeleton supporting irregularly grouped short radial tubes that are coalescent or fused proximally, with free distal cones; each group of tubes communicates through a common opening with the atrial cavity; large irregular inhalant cavities are left between the groups of radial tubes, and frequently reach the outer surface of the central atrial tube-----------------------------------------------Sycantha

(8) The atrial cavity contains an internal tissue network supported by a skeleton of parallel bundles of diactines-------------------------------------------------------------------------Sycandra
No network inside the atrial cavity-----------------------------------------------------------------------------9

(9) Pseudosagittal spicules are present in the distal cones of the radial tubes-----------------------Syconessa
No pseudosagittal spicules in the distal cones-------------------------------------------------------------------Sycon

(10) The whole sponge is covered by a continuous cortex supported by tangential spicules-------------------11
Only the grouped distal cones are covered by a cortical network supported by tangential triactines, leaving large openings to the inhalant cavities, and giving to the external surface a honeycombed aspect-----------------------------------------------Dermatreton

(11) Presence of a distinct layer of subcortical pseudosagittal spicules-----------------------------------------12
Absence of a distinct layer of subcortical pseudosagittal spicules------------------------------------------------17

(12) Inarticulated choanoskeleton composed of the unpaired actines of subatrial spicules and the centripetal paired actines of subcortical pseudosagittal spicules----------------------------------------------------------13
Articulated choanoskeleton, containing few to several rows of tube spicules, which are more or less scattered between the subatrial and subcortical spicules--------------------------------------------------------14

(13) Pseudosagittal spicules are triactines only----------------------------------------------------------Sycettusa
Pseudosagittal spicules are tetractines and triactines---------------------------------------------------Grantilla

(14) Sylleibid or leuconoid organisation--------------------------------------------------Vosmaeropsis
Syconoid organisation---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------15

(15) Without large longitudinal diactines in the cortical or atrial skeleton---------------Grantessa
With large longitudinal diactines in the cortical or atrial skeleton------------------------------------16

(16) Longitudinal diactines in the cortical skeleton only------------------------------------Heteropia
Longitudinal diactines in the cortical and atrial skeleton------------------------------Paraheteropia

(17) Articulated choanoskeleton, with at least some trace of the tube organisation; the majority of spicules have the unpaired actine pointing towards the outer surface of the sponge-------18
Inarticulated choanoskeleton, or choanoskeleton composed of an external inarticulated layer supported by apical actines of cortical tetractines, and an internal layer of scattered triactines and/or tetractines, without any apparent order-------------------------------------------------------34

(18) Without a tangential atrial skeleton substituted by subatrial chiactines (Achramorphidae fam. nov.)-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------19
With tangential atrial skeleton composed of triactines and/or tetractines----------------------20

(19) Syconoid organisation------------------------------------------------------------Achramorpha
Sylleibid or leuconoid organisation------------------------------------------------------Megapogon

(20) Spicular tracts in the choanoskeleton (Lelapiidae)-------------------------------------------21
No spicular tracts (Grantiidae)------------------------------------------------------------------------24

(21) Spicular tracts made of 'nail-shaped' triactines, with highly reduced paired actines ----22
Spicular tracts made of diapasons --------------------------------------------------------------------23

(22) Tubular sponge, syconoid or sylleibid organisation, choanoskeleton with short, radially arranged tracts between the distal parts of the radial tubes------------------------ Grantiopsis
Massive sponge with a thick wall containing large diactines, choanoskeleton with long tracts in an approximately radial arrangement----------------------------------------------------------Kebira

(23) Cortex composed of giant longitudinal diactines, which do not invade the choanoskeleton -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Paralelapia
Giant diactines in the choanoskeleton -------------------------------------------------------Lelapia

(24) Absence of longitudinal diactine in the atrial and/or cortical skeleton--------------------25
Presence of longitudinal diactines in the atrial and/or cortical skeleton------------------------29

(25) Syconoid organisation---------------------------------------------------------------------------26
Sylleibid or leuconoid organisation------------------------------------------------------------------27

(26) Diameter of the osculum smaller than that of the atrium--------------------------Grantia
Diameter of the osculum larger than that of the atrium: pedunculate calyciform sponge with a thin folded wall--------------------------------------------------------------------------Teichonopsis

(27) Septa with a specific skeleton of minute triactines within the atrial cavity--------Leucettaga
No septa within the atrial cavity------------------------------------------------------------------28

(28) Cortex composed of triactines and possibly diactines, which protrude from the cortex making it hispid-------------------------------------------------------------------------Leucandra
Cortex with triactines and tetractines---------------------------------------------Leucandrilla

(29) Leuconoid organisation--------------------------------------------------------Aphroceras
Syconoid organisation-----------------------------------------------------------------------------30

(30) Sponge with individual syconoid tubes or an arborescent cormus composed of separate tubes------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------31
Massive cormus composed of coalescent syconoid units, covered by a common cortex----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Synute

(31) Longitudinal diactines present only in the cortex--------------------------------------32
Longitudinal diactines present in the atrial skeleton----------------------------------------33

(32) Tufts of thin radial diactines decorate the distal parts of the radial tubes, and cross the cortex between the longitudinal diactines---------------------------------------------Sycute
No tufts of radial diactines-------------------------------------------------------------------Ute

(33) Longitudinal diactines present only in the atrial skeleton----------------Sycodorus
Longitudinal diactines present both in the atrial and the cortical skeleton---------------------------Amphiute

(34) Giant cortical tetractines (Amphoriscidae)---------------------------------------------35
No giant cortical tetractines (Jenkinidae)----------------------------------------------------37

(35) Syconoid organisation.----------------------------------------------------Amphoriscus
Sylleibid or leuconoid organisation-----------------------------------------------------------36

(36) Inarticulated choanoskeleton; scattered spicules occasionally between subcortical and subatrial layers------------------------------------------------------Leucilla
Choanoskeleton divided in two parts: the external part has an inarticulated organisation, while the internal one is intercalated between the subatrial spicules and the atrial skeleton, and is supported by scattered triactines and/or tetractines-------------------------------Paraleucilla

(37) Syconoid organisation-------------------------------------------------------38
Sylleibid or leuconoid organisation---------------------------------------------------------40

(38) Thin cortical skeleton, composed of one to several layers of triactines-------------------------Breitfussia
Reinforced cortical skeleton-----------------------------------------------------------------39

(39) Skeleton reinforced with giant tangential triactines, which are also scattered in the choanoskeleton--------------------------------------------------------------------Anamixilla
Reinforced skeleton with longitudinal diactines---------------------------------Uteopsis

(40) Without scattered spicules in the choanoskeleton---------------------------------41
With scattered spicules in the choanoskeleton, smaller than those of the cortex, and without defined position------------------------------------------Polejaevia

(41) Sponge growing as small individual tubes---------------------------------Jenkina
Sponge forming a large cormus composed of copiously anastomosed and ramified tubes----------------------------------------------Leucascandra

 

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1157]

 

General References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. (1157)

 

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Family ACHRAMORPHIDAE Borojevic, Boury-Esnault, Manuel & Vacelet, 2002


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Introduction

Staurorrhaphidae Jenkin, 1908 have solitary, tubular or sac-shaped growth forms with a well-developed fringe of spicules around the terminal oscule. There is a continuous cortex covering all the choanosome and this is perforated by ostia. There are no ectosomal tetractines and a tangential atrial skeleton is present only in the region of the oscule. Subatrial quadriradiates ('chiactines') (Hooper & Wiedenmayer 1994: figs 159–160) are present and equiangular, symmetrical and asymmetrical triradiates (Hooper & Wiedenmayer 1994: figs 147, 152, 155) and oxeas (Hooper & Wiedenmayer 1994: figs 164–166) are freely scattered in the choanosomal skeleton and projecting through the cortex. The aquiferous system is syconoid or leuconoid.

Staurorrhaphidae is a small family comprising only two genera, Achramorpha and Megapogon, both with Australian representatives, differentiated mainly by the possession of syconoid versus leuconoid water canal system organisation. Some authors have included these genera in the Grantiidae (Hartman 1982) whereas Borojevic (1968) maintains this family as distinct. Burton (1963) further suggested that the two genera are synonyms but this suggestion is rejected given major differences in their aquiferous systems (Borojevic 1968). The few known species are widely distributed from the North Atlantic, NW Pacific to Antarctica, at depths ranging to 500 m (Burton 1963).

Reviews of the genera are given by Dendy & Row (1913), Burton (1963) and Borojevic (1968).

 

Diagnosis

Leucosolenida with a continuous cortex covering all the choanosome. Cortical tetractines are absent. The organisation of the aquiferous system is syconoid, sylleibid or leuconoid. A tangential atrial skeleton is present only in the oscular region. In the atrial cavity, only the paired actines of subatrial chiactines support the atrial surface, while the apical actine is bent and points into the atrial cavity, making its surface hispid.

 

ID Keys

See Order Leucosolenida Diagnosis

 

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1180]

 

General References

Borojevic, R. 1968. Systématique et évolution des éponges Calcaires. Dieuxième Thèse. Université de Paris. 33 pp.

Burton, M. 1963. A Revision of the Classification of the Calcareous Sponges. London : British Museum pp. 1-693 figs 1-375.

Dendy, A. & Row, R.W.H. 1913. The classification and phylogeny of the calcareous sponges, with a reference list of all the described species, systematically arranged. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1913: 704-813

Hartman, W.D. 1982. Porifera. pp. 640-666 in Parker, S.P. (ed.). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. New York : McGraw-Hill Vol. 1.

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]

 

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Genus Achramorpha Jenkin, 1908

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Circum-Antarctic, Arctic and N Pacific.


Distribution References

Diagnosis

Achramorphidae with syconoid organisation.

 

ID Keys

See Order Leucosolenida Diagnosis

 

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1180]

 

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Species Achramorpha glacialis Jenkin, 1908

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; off Wilhelm II Coast, and also New Zealand Antarctic Terr.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth subtidal–385 m.

 

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Species Achramorpha grandinis Jenkin, 1908

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; off Wilhelm II Coast, and also New Zealand Antarctic Terr.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth subtidal–385 m.

 

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Species Achramorpha nivalis Jenkin, 1908

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; off Wilhelm II Coast, off Amery Ice Shelf and also New Zealand Antarctic Terr.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth subtidal–437 m.

 

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Genus Megapogon Jenkin, 1908

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical NE Atlantic Ocean, Azores, New Zealand Antarctic Terr., Antarctica.


Distribution References

Diagnosis

Achramorphidae with sylleibid or leuconoid organisation.

 

ID Keys

See Order Leucosolenida Diagnosis

 

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1181]

 

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Species Megapogon crispatus Jenkin, 1908

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; off Wilhelm II Coast, Enderby Land, Mawson Coast, and also New Zealand Antarctic Terr.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Shallow waters.

 

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Species Megapogon pollicaris Jenkin, 1908

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; off Wilhelm II Coast, Enderby Land, Mawson Coast, and also New Zealand Antarctic Terr.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Shallow waters.

 

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Species Megapogon varipilus Jenkin, 1908

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; off Wilhelm II Coast, Enderby Land, Mawson Coast, and also New Zealand Antarctic Terr.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Shallow waters.

 

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Species Megapogon villosa Jenkin, 1908

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; off Wilhelm II Coast, Enderby Land, Mawson Coast, and also New Zealand Antarctic Terr.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Shallow waters.

 

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Family AMPHORISCIDAE Dendy, 1892


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John N.A. Hooper, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Felix Wiedenmayer (1994), Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Basel, Switzerland; updated by John N.A. Hooper (1999)

Introduction

Amphoriscidae Dendy, 1892 have massive, tubular, ovoid and spherical growth forms, usually clustered together. They have a distinct cortex supported by tangentially placed tetractines (Hooper & Wiedenmayer 1994: figs 157, 158) in which apical rays cross each other entirely and for a least a large part of the choanosome. Tetractines (Hooper & Wiedenmayer 1994: figs 147–156) may also be present in the cortex. The choanosomal skeleton is composed of apical rays of the cortical tetractines and triactines and the unpaired rays of subatrial spicules. Triactines and/or tetractines may also be present in the choanosomal skeleton. An atrial skeleton is always present, and the aquiferous system is syconoid or leuconoid. Nuclei of the collared cells are always apical (Borojevic 1968; Borojevic & Boury-Esnault 1987).

Two genera are included, although four others may be referred here as incertae sedis (Syculmis, Kuarraphis, Leucettaga and Baeria). These are widely distributed in the oceans and occur from intertidal habitats to depths of at least 567 m (Hartman 1982). Two of these genera have known Australian distributions.

Reviews and discussions of the family include those of Dendy (1893a, with Heteropegma, Amphoriscus, Syculmis, Leucilla, Paraleucilla; Dendy 1893b); Dendy & Row (1913, Heteropegma was Leucaltis, transferred to Leucaltidae); Hartman (1958, family referred to Sycettida); Hartman (1982); and the recent revision of Borojevic & Boury-Esnault (1987).

 

Diagnosis

Leucosolenida with syconoid, sylleibid or leuconoid organisation, and a distinct cortex supported by tangential tetractines whose centripetal apical actines cross the outer part or the whole of the choanosome. Tangential triactines and small tetractines may be also present in the cortex. The choanoskeleton is typically inarticulated, composed of apical actines of cortical tetractines and the unpaired actines of subatrial spicules. In species with a thick wall scattered triactines and/or tetractines may be also present, either among the spicules of the inarticulated choanoskeleton, or forming a distinct subatrial layer. An atrial skeleton is always present.

 

ID Keys

See Order Leucosolenida Diagnosis

 

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1177]

 

General References

Borojevic, R. 1968. Systématique et évolution des éponges Calcaires. Dieuxième Thèse. Université de Paris. 33 pp.

Borojevic, R. & Boury-Esnault, N. 1987. Revision of the genus Leucilla Haeckel, 1872, with a re-description of the type species Leucilla amphora Haeckel, 1872. pp. 29-40 in Jones, W.C. European contributions to the taxonomy of sponges. Publications of the Sherkin Island Marine Station 1

Dendy, A. 1893. Studies on the comparative anatomy of sponges. V. Observations on the structure and classification of the Calcarea Heterocoela. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 2 35: 159-257 pls 10-14

Dendy, A. 1893. Synopsis of the Australian Calcarea Heterocoela, with a proposed classification of the group and descriptions of some new genera and species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 5: 69-116

Dendy, A. & Row, R.W.H. 1913. The classification and phylogeny of the calcareous sponges, with a reference list of all the described species, systematically arranged. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1913: 704-813

Hartman, W.D. 1958. A re-examination of Bidder's classification of the Calcarea. Systematic Zoology 7: 97-110

Hartman, W.D. 1982. Porifera. pp. 640-666 in Parker, S.P. (ed.). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. New York : McGraw-Hill Vol. 1.

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]

 

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Genus Amphoriscus Haeckel, 1869

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Malayan region, Southern Ocean, S Africa, NE Atlantic, Mediterranean and West Indian region.


IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Amphoriscidae with syconoid organisation of the aquiferous system. Scattered spicules in the choanosome are always absent.

 

ID Keys

See Order Leucosolenida Diagnosis

 

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1178]

 

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Species Amphoriscus cyathiscus (Haeckel, 1872)

 

Distribution

States

South Australia


Extra Distribution Information

S coast.

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

General References

Lendenfeld, R. von 1885. A monograph of the Australian sponges. Part 3. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 1083-1150 pls 59-67 [1105]

 

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Species Amphoriscus cylindrus (Haeckel, 1872)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales


IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 60–90 m (Adriatic).

 

General References

Dendy, A. 1893. Synopsis of the Australian Calcarea Heterocoela, with a proposed classification of the group and descriptions of some new genera and species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 5: 69-116 [114]

Lendenfeld, R. von 1885. A monograph of the Australian sponges. Part 3. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 1083-1150 pls 59-67 [1103]

Whitelegge, T. 1889. List of the Marine and Freshwater Invertebrate Fauna of Port Jackson and the Neighbourhood. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 23: 163-323 [180]

 

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Genus Leucilla Haeckel, 1872

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Malayan region, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Japan, E Pacific, S Africa, NE Atlantic and West Indian region.


IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), 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

Amphoriscidae with sylleibid or leuconoid organisation. The choanoskeleton is formed primarily by the apical actines of giant cortical triactines and the unpaired actines of subatrial triactines or tetractines. It may contain dispersed spicules, but a typical articulated choanoskeleton is always absent.

 

ID Keys

See Order Leucosolenida Diagnosis

 

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1179]

 

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Species Leucilla saccharata (Haeckel, 1872)

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 0–90 m.

 

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Species Leucilla uter Poléjaeff, 1884

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 59–183 m.

 

General References

Borojevic, R. & Boury-Esnault, N. 1987. Revision of the genus Leucilla Haeckel, 1872, with a re-description of the type species Leucilla amphora Haeckel, 1872. pp. 29-40 in Jones, W.C. European contributions to the taxonomy of sponges. Publications of the Sherkin Island Marine Station 1 [35]

Fell, H.B. 1950. The Kirk Collection of sponges (Porifera) in the Zoology Museum, Victoria University College. Zoological Publications of Victoria University College 4: 1-12 1 pl. [9]

Poléjaeff, N. 1884. Report on the Calcarea dredged 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 8: 1-76 pls 1-9

 

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Genus Paraleucilla Dendy, 1893

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Palk Strait, Sri Lanka.


IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Amphoriscidae with leuconoid organisation. The thick wall is divided into two regions. The outer region is supported by the skeleton which remains essentially inarticulated, with the apical actines of cortical tetractines pointed inwards, and a layer of triactines and/or tetractines with the unpaired actine pointed outwards. The inner region of the choanoskeleton is intercalated between the original subatrial skeleton and the atrial one, and it is supported by large triactines and/or tetractines, that are scattered in disarray, and whose form is similar to the spicules found in the outer layer of the choanoskeleton, or inside the atrial skeleton. Since the original subatrial layer still remains in the outer part of the choanosome, facing the cortical tetractines, there are no typical subatrial spicules adjacent to the atrial skeleton.

 

ID Keys

See Order Leucosolenida Diagnosis

 

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1179]

 

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Species Paraleucilla cucumis (Haeckel, 1872)

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Gulf St Vincent.


IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

General References

Burton, M. 1963. A Revision of the Classification of the Calcareous Sponges. London : British Museum pp. 1-693 figs 1-375. [116, 546] (Leucandra bassensis Haeckel, 1872 also as Leucandra cucumis var. bassensis =nominate subspecies)

 

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Family GRANTIIDAE Dendy, 1892


Compiler and date details

John N.A. Hooper, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Felix Wiedenmayer (1994), Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Basel, Switzerland; updated by John N.A. Hooper (1999)

Introduction

Grantiidae Dendy, 1893 are very variable and include encrusting, lobate, tubular, sac-shaped, ovoid, spherical, vase-shaped and many other growth forms, either solitary or grouped and sessile, substipitate, or stipitate. The surface has a distinct dermal cortex and a proper cortical skeleton of tangential radiates (Hooper & Wiedenmayer 1994: fig. 158), sometimes supplemented by, and occasionally replaced by, oxeas (Hooper & Wiedenmayer 1994: figs 164–174). The ectosomal cortex sometimes has quadriradiates (Hooper & Wiedenmayer 1994: fig. 158) in association with choanosomal triradiates (Hooper & Wiedenmayer 1994: figs 147–153). The skeleton of the chamber layer ranges from regularly articulate to irregularly scattered, typically with subgastral sagittal radiates (Hooper & Wiedenmayer 1994: fig. 155). Some subdermal pseudosagittal triradiates may occur, but these are regarded as derived from normal choanosomal spicules, and do not form a continuous distict layer as in the Heteropiidae. Subdermal quadriradiates (Hooper & Wiedenmayer 1994: figs 157, 158), if present, are always associated with the chamber-layer skeleton containing confused triradiates. Nuclei of collared cells are probably always apical. Choanocyte chambers are asconoid, elongate and radially arranged, or small, spherical and irregularly scattered in the choanosome (leuconoid).

The Grantiidae includes 25 recognised genera, among which 14 are recorded in the Australian fauna. The family has a generally widespread geographical distribution and occurs from intertidal habitats to depths of at least 2195 m (Hartman 1982).

Haeckel (1872) established Leucones as a supra-generic group for Leuconia and other genera, and it was later used at subfamily level by de Laubenfels (1936). Prior to Dendy (1893), both Leuconiinae Haeckel, 1872 and Grantiinae Lendenfeld, 1885 were used only at the subfamily level. We accept that Leuconiidae Haeckel, 1872 has priority over Grantiidae Dendy, 1893 under the ICZN: Art. 36a (Principle of co-ordination in family group taxa and names), however, we are reticent to change the established use of Grantiidae pending a thorough review of the order.

Reviews are available in Lendenfeld (1885a); Lendenfeld (1885b; as Grantinae); Dendy (1893a, 1893b; with Grantia, Grantiopsis, Ute, Synute, Utella, Anamixilla, Sycyssa, Leucandra, Lelapia, Leucyssa); Dendy & Row (1913; Lelapia removed to Lelapiidae; the following added: Teichonopsis, Sycute, Achramorpha, Uteopsis, Megapogon, Baeria, Leucopsilla, Aphroceras, Leucettaga, Paraleucilla, Lamontia, Trichogypsia, Kuarrhaphis, Eilhardia); Tanita (1943; key to genera); Hartman (1958; family referred to Sycettida); Borojevic (1966, 1968; discussion, differentiation from Heteropiidae); and Hartman (1982).

 

Diagnosis

Leucosolenida in which there is always a cortex, supported by a skeleton of tangential spicules that can be diactines, triactines, tetractines, or any combination of these. The aquiferous system is either syconoid with radial and elongate choanocyte chambers, or sylleibid or leuconoid with elongate or spherical, scattered choanocyte chambers. The inhalant and exhalant aquiferous systems are always fully developed. The choanoskeleton is articulate, tubular in syconoid species, and contains few to several rows of triactines and/or tetractines, or is, in leuconoid species, arranged without apparent order. In the latter case, the choanoskeleton always preserves traces of the radial organisation, particularly at the level of the subatrial triactines and/or tetractines. The atrial skeleton consisting of tangential triactines and/or tetractines is well developed.

 

ID Keys

See Order Lecusolenida Diagnosis

 

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1163]

 

General References

Borojevic, R. 1966. Eponges calcaires des côtes de France. I. Amphiute paulini Hanitsch; les genres Amphiute et Paraheteropia. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 106: 665-670 2 figs

Borojevic, R. 1968. Systématique et évolution des éponges Calcaires. Dieuxième Thèse. Université de Paris. 33 pp.

Dendy, A. 1893. Studies on the comparative anatomy of sponges. V. Observations on the structure and classification of the Calcarea Heterocoela. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 2 35: 159-257 pls 10-14

Dendy, A. 1893. Synopsis of the Australian Calcarea Heterocoela, with a proposed classification of the group and descriptions of some new genera and species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 5: 69-116

Dendy, A. & Row, R.W.H. 1913. The classification and phylogeny of the calcareous sponges, with a reference list of all the described species, systematically arranged. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1913: 704-813

Haeckel, E. 1872. Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. Berlin : Georg Reimer Vol. 1 pp. 1-396; Vol. 2 pp. 1-418; Vol. 3, pls 1-30. [part translated in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4)11: 241–262, 421–430]

Hartman, W.D. 1958. A re-examination of Bidder's classification of the Calcarea. Systematic Zoology 7: 97-110

Hartman, W.D. 1982. Porifera. pp. 640-666 in Parker, S.P. (ed.). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. New York : McGraw-Hill Vol. 1.

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]

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

Lendenfeld, R. von 1885. A monograph of the Australian sponges. Part 3. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 1083-1150 pls 59-67

Lendenfeld, R. von 1885. Die Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse der Kalkschwämme. Zoologischer Anzeiger 8: 211-215

Tanita, S. 1943. Studies on the Calcarea of Japan. Science Reports of the Tôhoku University Biology 17: 353-490 pls 11-18

 

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Genus Aphroceras Gray, 1858

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Malayan region, E Pacific, Indian Ocean, S Africa, E and N Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea.


IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Grantiidae with leuconoid organisation. The cortex is supported, at least in part, by giant longitudinal diactines.

 

ID Keys

See Order Leucosolenida Diagnosis

 

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1167]

 

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Species Aphroceras alcicornis Gray, 1858

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria


IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Aphroceras cataphracta (Haeckel, 1872)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland


IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Genus Grantia Fleming, 1828

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.


IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Grantiidae with syconoid organisation. The cortex is composed of tangential triactines and/or tetractines, occasionally with small perpendicular diactines. Longitudinal diactines, if present, are not found exclusively in the cortex, but cross obliquely, at least a part of the choanosome and protrude from the external surface.

 

ID Keys

See Order Leucosolenida Diagnosis

 

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1163]

 

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Species Grantia chartacea (Jenkin, 1908)

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; Wilhelm II Coast, also New Zealand Antarctic Terr.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Shallow waters.

 

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Species Grantia extusarticulata (Carter, 1886)

 

Distribution

States

Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Grantia fistulata Carter, 1886

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria


IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Grantia genuina Row & Hôzawa, 1931

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Grantia gracilis (Lendenfeld, 1885)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Grantia hodgsoni (Jenkin, 1908)

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; Wilhelm II Coast, also New Zealand Antarctic Terr.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Shallow waters.

 

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Species Grantia laevigata (Haeckel, 1872)

 

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

South Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Grantia ramulosa Dendy, 1924

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; Wilhelm II Coast, Mawson Coast, also New Zealand Antarctic Terr. and New Zealand.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Shallow waters.

 

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Species Grantia scotti (Jenkin, 1908)

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; Wilhelm II Coast, Mawson Coast, also New Zealand Antarctic Terr.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Shallow waters.

 

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Species Grantia transgrediens Brøndsted, 1931

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.

Known only from type locality.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 350–385 m.

 

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Species Grantia vitiosa Brøndsted, 1931

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.

Known only from type locality.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

350–385 m.

 

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Genus Leucandra Haeckel, 1872

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.


IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), 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

Grantiidae with sylleibid or leuconoid organisation. Longitudinal large diactines, if present, are not restricted to the cortex, but lie obliquely across the external part of the sponge wall and protrude from the surface of the sponge.

 

ID Keys

See Order Leucosolenida Diagnosis

 

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1166]

 

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Species Leucandra bathybia (Haeckel, 1872)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales


IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 4–626 m.

 

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Species Leucandra brumalis Jenkin, 1908

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; Wilhelm II Coast and also New Zealand Antarctic Terr.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth subtidal–110 m.

 

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Species Leucandra cirrata Jenkin, 1908

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; off Wilhelm II Coast, and also New Zealand Antarctic Terr.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Leucandra comata Brøndsted, 1931

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.

Known only from type locality.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 350–385 m.

 

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Species Leucandra conica Lendenfeld, 1885

 

Distribution

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Leucandra elegans (Lendenfeld, 1888)

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Leucandra erinacea Lendenfeld, 1888

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Leucandra expansa (Row & Hôzawa, 1931)

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Leucandra frigida Jenkin, 1908

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; Wilhelm II Coast and also New Zealand Antarctic Terr.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth subtidal–110 m.

 

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Species Leucandra gausapata Brøndsted, 1931

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.

Known only from type locality.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 350–385 m.

 

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Species Leucandra gaussi (Brøndsted, 1931)

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Macquarie Is.; also Kerguelen Is.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Leucandra gelatinosa Jenkin, 1908

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; Wilhelm II Coast and also New Zealand Antarctic Terr.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth subtidal–110 m.

 

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Species Leucandra gladiator Dendy, 1893

 

Distribution

States

Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Leucandra helena (Lendenfeld, 1885)

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Leucandra hiberna Jenkin, 1908

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; off Wilhelm II Coast, and also New Zealand Antarctic Terr.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Leucandra hirsuta Topsent, 1907

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; Wilhelm II Coast and Palmer Archipelago.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth subtidal–150 m.

 

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Species Leucandra joubini Topsent, 1907

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Macquarie Is., Aust. Antarctic Terr.; circum-Antarctic and Southern Ocean.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 0–236 m.

 

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Species Leucandra lanceolata (Row & Hôzawa, 1931)

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Leucandra loricata (Poléjaeff, 1884)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 55–64 m.

 

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Species Leucandra mawsoni Dendy, 1918

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; Wilhelm II Coast and also New Zealand Antarctic Terr.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth subtidal–110 m.

 

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Species Leucandra meandrina Lendenfeld, 1885

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia


IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 18–37 m.

 

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Species Leucandra minima Rowe & Hôzawa, 1931

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Leucandra nicolae Woerheide & Hooper, 2003

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, benthic, filter-feeder.

 

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Species Leucandra pallida Row & Hôzawa, 1931

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Leucandra pandora (Haeckel, 1872)

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

General References

Dendy, A. & Row, R.W.H. 1913. The classification and phylogeny of the calcareous sponges, with a reference list of all the described species, systematically arranged. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1913: 704-813

 

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Species Leucandra phillipensis Dendy, 1893

 

Distribution

States

Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Port Phillip Heads and Shark Bay.


IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Leucandra princeps (Row & Hôzawa, 1931)

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Leucandra pulvinar (Haeckel, 1872)

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Also Red Sea and Indian Ocean.


IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Leucandra sphaeracella Woerheide & Hooper, 2003

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, benthic, filter-feeder.

 

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Species Leucandra thulakomorpha Row & Hôzawa, 1931

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Leucandra vaginata Lendenfeld, 1885

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Leucandra villosa Lendenfeld, 1885

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Genus Synute Dendy, 1892

 

Distribution

States

Victoria, Western Australia


IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Diagnosis

Grantiidae with a cormus composed entirely of fused syconoid units and surrounded by a common cortex with a special skeleton containing giant longitudinal diactines (Dendy 1892b).

 

ID Keys

See Order Leucosolenida Diagnosis

 

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1165]

 

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Species Synute pulchellus Dendy, 1892

 

Distribution

States

Victoria, Western Australia


IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

General References

Ayling, A.L., Stone, S. & Smith, B.J. 1982. Catalogue of types of sponge species from Southern Australia described by Arthur Dendy. Reports of the National Museum of Victoria 1: 97-109 [105]

Fell, H.B. 1950. The Kirk Collection of sponges (Porifera) in the Zoology Museum, Victoria University College. Zoological Publications of Victoria University College 4: 1-12 1 pl. [7]

 

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Genus Teichonopsis Dendy & Row, 1913

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia


IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Diagnosis

Pedunculate calyciform Grantiidae with syconoid organisation and an expanded atrium. The thin wall is highly folded and the convoluted edge corresponds to the oscular margin.

 

ID Keys

See Order Leucosolenida Diagnosis

 

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1165]

 

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Species Teichonopsis labyrinthica (Carter, 1878)

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia


IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

General References

Dendy, A. & Row, R.W.H. 1913. The classification and phylogeny of the calcareous sponges, with a reference list of all the described species, systematically arranged. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1913: 704-813 [761]

Sorokin, S.J., Laperousaz, T.C.D. & Collings, G.J. 2008. Investigator Group Expedition 2006: Sponges (Porifera). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 132(2): 163-172 [167]

 

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Genus Ute Dendy & Row, 1913

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Indian Ocean, Japan, NE Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea.


IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Grantiidae with syconoid organisation. The cortex is supported by giant longitudinal diactines, and the choanoskeleton is articulated, composed of several rows of triactines with occasional tetractines. There are no radial fascicles of diactines.

 

ID Keys

See Order Leucosolenida Diagnosis

 

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1165]

 

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Species Ute ampullacea Woerheide & Hooper, 2003

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, filter-feeder.

 

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Species Ute spenceri Dendy, 1893

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

General References

Ayling, A.L., Stone, S. & Smith, B.J. 1982. Catalogue of types of sponge species from Southern Australia described by Arthur Dendy. Reports of the National Museum of Victoria 1: 97-109 [105] (type data)

 

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Species Ute spiculosus Dendy, 1893

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Ute syconoides (Carter, 1886)

 

Distribution

States

Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Port Jackson, Port Phillip Heads of Westernport Bay, and also Indian Ocean.


IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Incertae Sedis

 

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Family HETEROPIIDAE Dendy, 1893


Compiler and date details

John N.A. Hooper, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Felix Wiedenmayer (1994), Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Basel, Switzerland; updated by John N.A. Hooper (1999)

Introduction

Heteropiidae Dendy, 1893 (with Djeddeidae de Laubenfels, 1936 in synonymy) includes massive, tubular, pear-shaped and branching growth forms with syconoid or leuconoid organisation. They occur as solitary sponges or in groups. They usually have a well developed cortex supported by the tangential triactine (triradiate) spicules, typically asymmetrical with unequal angles (Hooper & Wiedenmayer 1994: figs 150, 152–156), which entirely covers the choanocyte chamber layer. The inarticulated or articulated tubular skeleton is characterised by a distinct subdermal zone formed by pseudosagittal triactines, but an articulated choanosomal spicule skeleton may be present or absent. The cortical triradiates are believed to have originated from the articulate chamber skeleton through reorientation of the spicules, so that one of the paired rays becomes the sagittal ray and the other pairs up with the remaining ray. The asymmetry of the newly paired rays and the angle of one of them is evidence of the rotation of the spicule as it has shifted from a position in the chamber skeleton to a cortical position.

The five genera in the family are widely distributed. Three are recorded in the Australian fauna. These sponges are found in shallow waters to depths of at least 1000 m (Hartman 1982).

The family is reviewed and discussed in Dendy (1893); Minchin (1900; Grantessa, Heteropia and Vosmaeropsis included); Dendy & Row (1913; Grantessa, Heteropia, Amphiute, Vosmaeropsis and Grantilla included); Hartman (1958; referred to Sycettida); Burton (1963; Heteropiidae dropped); Borojevic (1966; revised diagnosis; Amphiute removed to Grantiidae; Paraheteropia gen. n. added); and Borojevic (1968; revised diagnosis and five genera included). Other reviews are given by Brien et al. (1973) and Hartman (1982).

 

Diagnosis

Leucosolenida with syconoid or leuconoid organisation. The choanoskeleton is composed of a proximal layer of subatrial triactines and a distinct distal layer of pseudosagittal triactines and/or pseudosagittal tetractines, often separated by an intermediate layer that is supported by several rows of triactines and/or tetractines. The atrial skeleton is well developed.

 

ID Keys

See Order Leucosolenida diagnosis

 

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1174]

 

General References

Borojevic, R. 1966. Eponges calcaires des côtes de France. I. Amphiute paulini Hanitsch; les genres Amphiute et Paraheteropia. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 106: 665-670 2 figs

Borojevic, R. 1968. Systématique et évolution des éponges Calcaires. Dieuxième Thèse. Université de Paris. 33 pp.

Brien, P., Lévi, C., Sarà, M., Tuzet, O. & Vacelet, J. 1973. Spongiaires. pp. 1-716 485 figs in Grassé, P.P. (ed.). Traité de Zoologie. Anatomie, Systématique, Biologie. Paris : Masson et Cie Vol. 3(1).

Burton, M. 1963. A Revision of the Classification of the Calcareous Sponges. London : British Museum pp. 1-693 figs 1-375.

Dendy, A. 1893. Studies on the comparative anatomy of sponges. V. Observations on the structure and classification of the Calcarea Heterocoela. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 2 35: 159-257 pls 10-14

Dendy, A. 1893. Synopsis of the Australian Calcarea Heterocoela, with a proposed classification of the group and descriptions of some new genera and species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 5: 69-116 [75]

Dendy, A. & Row, R.W.H. 1913. The classification and phylogeny of the calcareous sponges, with a reference list of all the described species, systematically arranged. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1913: 704-813

Hartman, W.D. 1958. A re-examination of Bidder's classification of the Calcarea. Systematic Zoology 7: 97-110

Hartman, W.D. 1982. Porifera. pp. 640-666 in Parker, S.P. (ed.). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. New York : McGraw-Hill Vol. 1.

Minchin, E.A. 1900. Porifera. pp. 1-178 in Lankester, E.R. (ed.). A Treatise on Zoology. The Porifera and Coelenterata. London : Adam and Charles Black Part 2.

 

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Genus Grantessa Lendenfeld, 1885

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, Japan, Arctic, NE, NW and SW Atlantic and Subantarctic.


IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Heteropiidae with syconoid organisation and an articulated choanoskeleton. A thin cortex is formed by triactines but lacks longitudinal large diactines. The distal part of the radial tubes is frequently decorated by tufts of radially arranged diactines, indicating a close relationship to the genus Syconessa.

 

ID Keys

See Order Leucosolenida Diagnosis

 

Diagnosis References

Borojevic, R., Boury-Esnault, N., Manuel, M. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. pp. 1157-1184 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1177]

 

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Species Grantessa boomerang (Dendy, 1893)

 

Distribution

States

Victoria, Western Australia


IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

General References

Borojevic, R. 1967. Eponges calcaires recueillies en Nouvelle-Calédonie par la Mission Singer-Polignac. In, Expéd. Franç. Récifs Coral. Nouv. Caléd Paris : Fond. Singer-Polignac. Vol. 2. 11 pp. 4 figs [8] (transfer to Grantessa Lendenfeld, 1885)

 

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Species Grantessa compressa (Carter, 1886)

 

Distribution

States

Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Grantessa erecta (Carter, 1886)

 

Distribution

States

Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Grantessa erinaceus (Carter, 1886)

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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Species Grantessa hirsuta (Carter, 1886)

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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