Subgenus Lissodendoryx (Lissodendoryx) Topsent, 1892

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lissodendoryx Topsent, E. 1892. Contribution à l'étude des Spongiaires de l'Atlantique Nord. Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco 2: 1-165 11 pls [63].

  Type species:

   Tedania leptoderma Topsent, 1889 by subsequent designation, see Topsent, E. 1894. Application de la taxonomie actuelle à une collection de Spongiaires du Banc de Campêche et de la Guadeloupe décrite précédemment. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 7: 27-36 [35].
• Paramyxilla 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. [233].

  Type species:

   Halichondria infrequens Carter, 1881 by original designation.
• Anomodoryx Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [555].

  Type species:

   Desmacidon dendyi Whitelegge, 1901 by original designation.
• Jones 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 [79].

  Type species:

   Myxilla amaknakensis Lambe, 1894 by original designation.
• Waldoschmittia 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 [95].

  Type species:

   Crella schmidti Ridley, 1884 by original designation.
• Xytopsihis 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 [54].

  Type species:

   Halichondria aspera Bowerbank, 1875 by original designation.
• Zottea 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 [64].

  Type species:

   Myxilla grata Thiele, 1903 by original designation.
• Zetekispongia 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 [446].

  Type species:

   Zetekispongia zonea Laubenfels, 1936 by original designation.
• Damiriana Laubenfels, M.W. de 1950. The sponges of Kaneohe Bay, Oahu. Pacific Science 4(1): 3-36 [13].

  Type species:

   Damiriana hawaiiana Laubenfels, 1950 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), 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 Province (38), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Diagnosis

Lissodendoryx with a full complement of megascleres including ectosomal tylotornotes and choanosomal styles, which may or may not bear spines; no smaller category of echinating acanthostyles microscleres include arcuate isochelae and sigmas, which may be absent. Raphides may be present. Distribution. Circumglobal warm water, occasionally also in temperate and cold water.

ID Keys

See Genus Lissodendoryx Diagnosis

Diagnosis References

van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Coelosphaeridae Dendy, 1922. pp. 528-546 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. [540]

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