Subgenus Mycale (Zygomycale) Topsent, 1929

Museums

Regional Maps

• Zygomycale Topsent, E. 1930. Chondrocladia yatsui n. sp. de la Baie de Sagami. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 12: 421-432 [431].

  Type species:

   Raphiodesma parishi Bowerbank, 1875 by subsequent designation, see Wiedenmayer, F. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Diagnosis

Mycale with plumose or plumoreticulated choanosomal skeleton made of multispicular tracts of megascleres of one category only; ectosomal skeleton a dense tangential reticulation of megascleres, singly or in tracts; megascleres mycalostyles; microscleres palmate anisochelae in one or more size categories, the larger ones forming rosettes, small palmate isochelae, sigmas, raphides and toxas, the latter two often in bundles (dragmas).

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. [687]

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