Subgenus Mycale (Arenochalina) Lendenfeld, 1887

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acamas Duchassaing, F.P. de & Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Bataafsche Hollandsche Maatschappye der Wetenschappen te Haarlem 2 21: 1-124 pls 1-25 [95] [junior homonym of Acamas de Montfort, 1808 (Mollusca)].

  Type species:

   Acamas laxissima Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 by subsequent designation, see 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 [117].
• Acamasina 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 [117] [nom. nov. for Acamas Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864].
• Arenochalina Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [821].

  Type species:

   Arenochalina mirabilis Lendenfeld, 1887 by monotypy.
• Kerasemna Pulitzer-Finali, G. 1982. Some shallow-water sponges from Hong Kong. pp. 97-110 in Morton, B.S. & Tseng, C.K. (eds). Proceedings of the First International Marine Biological Workshop. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China, 1980. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press Vol. 1 554 pp. [106].

  Type species:

   Kerasemna tenuityla Pulitzer-Finali, 1982 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

Mycale with choanosomal skeleton consisting of a stout, mostly quadrangular reticulation of spongin fibres cored by foreign material and/or filamentous algae and few proper megascleres; ectosomal skeleton absent; few scattered choanosomal megascleres and microscleres; megascleres mycalostyles of one category only; microscleres anisochelae of one category only, often absent or rare, and sigmas, occasionally absent or rare.

ID Keys

See Genus Mycale Diagnosis

Diagnosis References

van Soest, R.W.M. & Hajdu, E. 2002. Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. pp. 669-690 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. [676]

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