Genus Paratetilla Dendy, 1905

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paratetilla 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. [97].

  Type species:

   Tethya merguiensis Carter, 1883 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 [175].

 

Introduction

Chambers et al. (2013) used molecular methods to separate two morphs of a moon sponge, Paratetilla sp., to recognise Cinachyrella (Morph 1) and Paratetilla (Morph 2).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region and W Pacific Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Globular sponges with hairy-bristly surface, provided with porocalices. Skeleton radiate, with bundles of oxeas originating from a central focus and running radially to the surface. Spicules protriaenes, anatriaenes, calthrops-like triaenes, oxeas, sigmaspires. So far only a single wide-spread Indo-West Pacific species is reliably recorded.

 

ID Keys

See Family Tetillidae Diagnosis.

 

General References

Chambers, K., Padovan, A., Alvarez, B. & Gibb, K. 2013. Microbial signatures can help distinguish moon sponges (family Tetillidae) from Darwin Harbour, Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research 64(8): 716–725

 

History of changes

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