Genus Penares Gray, 1867

Museums

Regional Maps

• Penares 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 [542].

  Type species:

   Stelletta helleri Schmidt, 1864 by monotypy.
• Pachamphilla Lendenfeld, R. von 1907. Die Tetraxonia. pp. 59–374 pls 9–46 in Chun, C. (ed.) Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer Valdivia 1898–1899. Vol. 11. [251].

  Type species:

   Pachamphilla alata Lendenfeld, 1907 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

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)

Diagnosis

Sponges irregularly massive with a very thin cortex, smooth microrhabds, centrotylote or not, forming a crust in the ectosome; euasters may be absent.

ID Keys

See Family Ancorinidae Diagnosis.

Diagnosis References

Uriz, M. J. 2002. Family Ancorinidae, 1870. pp. 108-126 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. [121]

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