Genus Lamellodysidea Cook & Bergquist, 2002

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Regional Maps

• Lamellodysidea Cook, S.D.C. & Bergquist, P.R. 2002. Family Dysideidae Gray, 1867. pp. 1061-1066 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. [1064].

  Type species:

   Spongelia herbacea Keller, 1889 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

Lamellate to digitate sponges, arising from a thin, encrusting basal plate. The surface is finely conulose, and in lamellate specimens the conules tend to be aligned in parallel rows, from the base to distal edges. The unorganised skeletal reticulum is comprised of cored fibres, without clear distinction into primary ascending fibres and secondary connecting fibres. Typically there are dense populations of cyanobacteria inhabiting the mesohyl. These sponges are soft and compressible, though specimens with significant deposits of interstitial detritus are firmer, and they have a slimy texture.

ID Keys

See Family Dysideidae Diagnosis

Diagnosis References

Cook, S.D.C. & Bergquist, P.R. 2002. Family Spongiidae Gray, 1867. pp. 1051-1060 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. [1064]

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