Subgenus Mycale (Naviculina) Gray, 1867

Museums

Regional Maps

• Naviculina Gray, J.E. 1867. Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the description of some new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 492-558 pls 27-28 [538] [described only from a single spicule in Bowerbank, J.S. 1864. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. London : Ray Society Vol. 1 290 pp. 37 pls. (pl. 37 fig. 152)].

  Type species:

   Naviculina cliftoni Gray, 1867 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Diagnosis

Mycale with a reticulated tangential ectosomal skeleton and naviculichelae (complete or near fusion of both frontal alae, falx markedly expanded along the shaft, lateral alae of the head project backward and upward).

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. [681]

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