Genus Topsentia Berg, 1899

Museums

Regional Maps

• [Anisoxya] Topsent, E. 1898. Eponges nouvelles des Açores (première série). Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 11: 225-255 [225] [junior homonym of Anisoxya Mulsant, 1856 (Coleoptera)].

  Type species:

   Anisoxya glabra Topsent, 1898 by monotypy.
• Topsentia Berg, C. 1899. Substitucion de nombres genericos. III. Comunicaciones del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires 1: 77-80 [77].

  Type species:

   Anisoxya glabra Topsent, 1898 by original designation.
• Trachyopsis Dendy, A. 1905. Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. 57-246 pls 1-16 in Herdman, W.A. (ed.). Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. London : Royal Society Vol. 3 Suppl. 18. [147].

  Type species:

   Trachyopsis halichondrioides Dendy, 1905 by monotypy.
• Allosclera Topsent, E. 1927. Diagnoses d'Eponges nouvelles recueillies par le Prince Albert Ier de Monaco. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco 502: 1-19 [6] [junior objective synonym of Topsentia Berg, 1899].

  Type species:

   Topsentia glabra Topsent, 1898 by subsequent designation, see Lévi, C. 1956. Spongiaires des côtes de Madagascar. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar A 10: 1-23 [4].
• Oxeostilon Hernandez, F.F. 1923. Mas datos para el conocimiento de las esponjas de las costas espanolas. Boletín de Pescas Madrid 7: 247-272 [255].

  Type species:

   Oxeostilon annandalei Hernandez, 1922 by monotypy.
• Coelocalypta Topsent, E. 1928. Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert Ier de Monaco. Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco 74: 1-376 11 pls [167].

  Type species:

   Coelocalypta porrecta Topsent, 1928 by monotypy.
• Laminospongia Pulitzer-Finali, G. 1983. A collection of Mediterranean Demospongiae (Porifera) with, in appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the Mediterranean Sea. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 84: 445-621 [546].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• van Soest, R.W.M., Diaz, M.C. & Pomponi, S.A. 1990. Phylogenetic classification of the halichondrids (Porifera, Demospongiae). Beaufortia 40(2): 15-62 [37]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

N Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, New Zealand, W and central Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Massive, lobate, or wall-shaped sponges, with brittle and rough texture; bright colours typically absent; ectosomal skeleton composed of crust of compact, smaller ectosomal oxeas lying tangentially or paratangentially producing a microhispid surface (but optically smooth); choanosomal skeleton with very little collagen, no spongin-cemented fibres, resulting in an utterly confused, directionless arrangement of spicules packed around canals and cavities; megascleres are oxeas of a wide size range, usually in 2–3 size classes; twisted, bent or doubly-bent spicules sometimes present; no raphide microscleres. A dozen species recorded from all three oceans, mostly at lower latitudes.

 

ID Keys

See Family Halichondriidae Diagnosis.

 

Diagnosis References

Erpenbeck, D. & van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. pp. 787-816 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. [814]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018	DEMOSPONGIAE Sollas, 1885	17-Sep-2014	MODIFIED	ABRS
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)