Genus Luffariella Thiele, 1899

Museums

Regional Maps

• [Luffaria] Poléjaeff, N. 1884. Report on the Keratosa 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 11: 1-88 pls 1-10 [69] [junior homonym of Luffaria Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864].

  Type species:

   Luffaria variabilis Poléjaeff, 1884 by subsequent designation, see Thomas, P.A. 1979. Studies on sponges of the Mozambique Channel. I. Sponges of Inhaca Island. II. Sponges of Mambone and Paradise Islands. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale Tervuren Belgique Zool. 227: 1-73 [25].
• Luffariella Thiele, J. 1899. Studien über pazifische Spongien. II. Ueber einige Spongien von Celebes. Zoologica (New York) 24: 1-33 pls 1-5 [25] [nom. nov. for Luffaria Poléjaeff, 1884].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bergquist, P.R. 1980. A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida (Class Demospongiae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 7: 443-503 figs 1-25 pls

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Malayan region and W Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Massive to upright, producing caliculate, cylindrical-tubular and lobed forms (Fig. 3E–F, J). The surface is conulose and unarmoured. The moderately dense, regular to irregular skeleton comprises branching primary, secondary and fine tertiary fibres (Fig. 3G–I). Primary fibres are cored with foreign debris, although this is known to be sparse in one species, and tend to bifurcate near the surface, becoming almost fascicular. Secondary and tertiary fibres are uncored. These sponges are moderately firm and barely compressible.

 

ID Keys

See Subfamily Thorectinae Diagnosis

 

Diagnosis References

Cook, S.D.C. & Bergquist, P.R. 2002. Family Thorectidae Bergquist, 1978. pp. 1028-1050 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. [1035]

 

General References

Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. [382]

 

History of changes

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