Genus Phorbas Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
- Phorbas Duchassaing, F.P. de & Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Bataafsche Hollandsche Maatschappye der Wetenschappen te Haarlem 2 21: 1-124 pls 1-25 [91].
Type species:
Phorbas amaranthus Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 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 [63]. - Anchinoe 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 [535].
Type species:
Hymeniacidon perarmatus Bowerbank, 1866 by monotypy. - Pronax 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 [526].
Type species:
Cliona lobata Hancock, 1867 by monotypy. - Suberotelites Schmidt, E.O. 1868. Die Spongien der Küste von Algier. Mit Nachträgen zu den Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 44 pp. 5 pls. [12].
Type species:
Suberotelites mercator Schmidt, 1868 by monotypy. - Plumohalichondria Carter, H.J. 1876. Descriptions and figures of deep-sea sponges and their spicules, from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S. Porcupine, chiefly in 1869 (concluded). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 18: 226-240, 307-324, 388-410, 458-479 pls 1 [236].
Type species:
Plumohalichondria microcionides Carter, 1876 by monotypy. - Clathrissa Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [217].
Type species:
Clathrissa arbuscula Lendenfeld, 1888 by subsequent designation, see Hallmann, E.F. 1912. Report on the sponges obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, 1909–10. Part 1. Zoological (and Biological) Results of the Fishing Experiments carried on by F.I.S. Endeavour 1909-1914 2: 117-300 69 figs pls 21-36 [146]. - Stylostichon Topsent, E. 1892. Contribution à l'étude des Spongiaires de l'Atlantique Nord. Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco 2: 1-165 11 pls [111].
Type species:
Stylostichon dendyi Topsent, 1892 by subsequent designation, see Lundbeck, W. 1909. The Porifera of East Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 29: 423-464 pl. 14 [444]. - Lissopocillon Ferrer-Hernandez, F. 1916. Fauna del Mediterraneo occidental. Esponjas españolas. Trabajos Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Zool. 27: 1-52 [32].
Type species:
Lissopocillon dendyi Ferrer-Hernandez, 1916 by monotypy. - Grayax 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 [63] [nom. nov. for Pronax Gray, 1867 see 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 (536)].
- Merriamium 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 [83].
Type species:
Merriamium tortugasense de Laubenfels, 1936 by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Voultsiadou-Koukoura, E. and Soest, R.W.M. Van 1991. Phorbas posidoni n. sp. (Porifera: Poecilosclerida) from the Aegean Sea, with a discussion of the family Anchinoidae. Journal of Natural History 25: 827-836 [828]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
West Indian region, N Atlantic Ocean, Red Sea, Arctic, Mediterranean Sea, S Africa, Indo-Malayan region, New Zealand, Japan, N Pacific Ocean, SE Pacific Ocean, Antarctic and Subantarctic.
IMCRA
Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)
Other Regions
Australian Antarctic Territory
Distribution References
Diagnosis
Thickly encrusting, massive or ramose sponges. Pores grouped in sieve-plates (areolae); ectosomal skeleton with a crust of isochelae and diactinal spicules which form fans disposed at right angles and tangential to the surface; heavily spined acanthostyles core plumose or plumo-reticulate choanosomal tracts, or these may be replaced by smooth diactinal tornotes; echinating acanthostyles also heavily spined; microscleres are arcuate isochelae and sigmas, both of which may be absent. About 70 species.
ID Keys
See Family Hymedesmiidae Diagnosis.
Diagnosis References
van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Hymedesmiidae Topsent, 1928. pp. 575-593 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. [585]
History of changes
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| 29-Mar-2018 | 13-Apr-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |