Subgenus Haliclona (Haliclona) Grant, 1836

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• Chalina Bowerbank, J.S. 1862. On the anatomy and physiology of the Spongiadae. Part III. On the generic characters, the specific characters, and on the method of examination. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 152: 1087-1135 pls 72-74 [1120].

  Type species:

   Spongia oculata Linnaeus, 1759 by original designation (as Halichondria oculata Johnston 1842).
• Adocia 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 [522].

  Type species:

   Isodictya simulans Bowerbank, 1866 by monotypy.
• Chalinula Schmidt, E.O. 1868. Die Spongien der Küste von Algier. Mit Nachträgen zu den Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 44 pp. 5 pls. [7].

  Type species:

   Chalinula renieroides Schmidt, 1868 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 [47].
• Amorphina Schmidt, E.O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des Atlantischen Gebietes. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 6 pls. [40].

  Type species:

   Reniera grossa Schmidt, 1864 by subsequent designation, see Higgin, T.H. 1877. Description of some sponges obtained during a cruise of the steamyacht Argo in the Caribbean and neighbouring seas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 19: 291-299 pl. 14.
• Pellina Schmidt, E.O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des Atlantischen Gebietes. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 6 pls. [41].

  Type species:

   Halichondria semitubulosa Lieberkühn, 1859 by subsequent designation, see Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [535].
• Lessepsia Keller, C. 1883. Die Fauna im Suez-Canal und die Diffusion der mediterranen und erythräischen Thierwelt. Eine thiergeographische Untersuchung. Neue Denkschriften der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 28(3): 1-39 pls 1-2 [19].

  Type species:

   Lessepsia violacea Keller, 1883 by monotypy.
• Euchalinopsis Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [742].

  Type species:

   Chalina oculata Bowerbank, 1864 by subsequent designation, see Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [529].
• Halichondriella Burton, M. 1931. Studies on Norwegian sponges. I. Kongelige Norske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhanglinger 4: 136-143 [137].

  Type species:

   Halichondriella corticata Burton, 1931 by monotypy.
• Neoadocia Laubenfels, M.W. de 1950. The sponges of Kaneohe Bay, Oahu. Pacific Science 4(1): 3-36 [15].

  Type species:

   Neoadocia mokuoloea de Laubenfels, 1950 by original designation.
• Kaneohea Laubenfels, M.W. de 1950. The sponges of Kaneohe Bay, Oahu. Pacific Science 4(1): 3-36 [23].

  Type species:

   Kaneohea poni de Laubenfels, 1950 by original designation.
• Toxiclona Laubenfels, M.W. de 1954. The sponges of the West-Central Pacific. Oregon State Monographs. Studies in Zoology 7: 1-306 pls 1-12 [73].

  Type species:

   Siphonochalina gaussiana Hentschel, 1914 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Koltun, V.M. 1976. Porifera. Part I. Antarctic sponges. Report of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, 1928–31 B Zoology & Botany 9(4): 147-198 pls 1-3 [195] (as Haliclona gaussiana (Hentschel, 1914))
• 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 [104 part]
• Weerdt, W.H. de 1986. A systematic revision of the north-eastern Atlantic shallow-water Haplosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae), Part II: Chalinidae. Beaufortia 36(6): 81-165 pls 1-10 [60]
• Hooper, J.N.A. 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] [111] (for Sigmadocia de Laubenfels, 1936)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Diagnosis

Sponges branched, repent ramose or thinly encrusting. Consistency varying from soft, flexible, to firm, corky. Oscula in the branched and ramose forms circular, small, but clearly visible; in the branched form they may be arranged alongside the narrower sides of the branches; in encrusting sponges they are very small, with a slight tendency to be surrounded by star-shaped aquiferous canals.

ID Keys

See Genus Haliclona Diagnosis

Diagnosis References

Weerdt, W. H. De 2002. Family Chalinidae Gray, 1867. pp. 852-873 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. [863]

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