Genus Oceanapia Norman, 1869
- Oceanapia Norman, A.M. 1869. Shetland final dredging report. Part II. On the Crustacea, Tunicata, Polyzoa, Echinodermata, Actinozoa, Hydrozoa, and Porifera. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Oxford) 38(1868): 247-336 [334].
Type species:
Isodictya robusta Bowerbank, 1866 by monotypy. - Rhizochalina Schmidt, E.O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des Atlantischen Gebietes. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 6 pls. [35].
Type species:
Rhizochalina oleracea Schmidt, 1870 by subsequent designation, see Ridley, S.O. & Dendy, A. 1887. Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology Zool. 20(59): 1-275 pls 1-51 [lxiv]. - Phloeodictyon Carter, H.J. 1882. New sponges, observations on old ones, and a proposed new group. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 10: 106-125 [122].
Type species:
Phloeodictyon isodictyiforme Carter, 1882 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 [72]. - Biminia Wiedenmayer, F. 1977. Shallow-water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel : Birkhäuser (Experientia Suppl. 28) 287 pp. 43 pls. [124].
Type species:
Oceanapia toxophila Dendy, 1922 by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- van Soest, R.W.M. 1980. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part II. Haplosclerida. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 62(191): 1-173 49 figs 18 pls [80, 115]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Amphi-Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, S Africa, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, Japan, New Zealand and E Pacific Ocean.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northeast Province (18), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), 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)
Distribution References
- Bergquist, P.R. & Warne, K.P. 1980. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 3 (Haplosclerida and Nepheliospongida). Memoirs of the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute 87: 1-77 17 pls 4 figs
- Fromont, J. 1991. Descriptions of species of the Petrosida (Porifera: Demospongiae) occurring in the tropical waters of the Great Barrier Reef. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 8(1): 73-96
- Weerdt, W.H. de 1985. A systematic revision of the north eastern Atlantic shallow-water Haplosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae), Part 1: Introduction, Oceanapiidae and Petrosiidae. Beaufortia 35(5): 61-91
Diagnosis
Massive, globular, lamellate growth forms, with long tubular processes or fistules, opened or closed at their ends. Ectosomal skeleton a tangential multilayered compact crust of tangential spicules. Fistule walls supported by an irregular, network of tracts, with irregular mesh and abundant spongin. Between the tracts, a fine unispicular, subisodictyal network is visible and minute sigmata may be present. Choanosomal skeleton (Fig. 4D, F) of the basal part is formed by an irregular network of strong spicule tracts, parallel to the surface, abundantly ramified to form irregular to oval meshes, with abundant free oxeas and less numerous sigmata. Spongin in variable quantities.
ID Keys
See Family Phloeodictyidae Diagnosis.
Diagnosis References
Desqueyroux-Faundez, R. & Valentine, C. 2002. Family Phloeodictyidae Carter, 1882. pp. 893-905 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. [897]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 29-Mar-2018 | 15-Dec-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 29-Mar-2018 | 13-Apr-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |