Subgenus Mycale (Paresperella) Dendy, 1905

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paresperella 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. [162].

  Type species:

   Esperia serratohamata Carter, 1880 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), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), 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

Mycale with choanosomal skeleton plumose or plumoreticulated, made of multispicular tracts of megascleres; ectosomal skeleton often a tangential reticulation of megascleres; megascleres subtylostyles (mycalostyles) often of one size category only; microscleres are palmate anisochelae of one or more categories, the larger ones may form rosettes, serrated sigmas, and occasionally toxas.

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. [684]

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