Genus Amorphinopsis Carter, 1887

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amorphinopsis Carter, H.J. 1887. Report on the marine sponges, chiefly from King Island in the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr John Anderson. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology Zool. 21: 61-84 pls 5-7 [77].

  Type species:

   Amorphinopsis excavans Carter, 1887 by monotypy.
• [Migas] Sollas, I.B.G. 1908. The inclusion of foreign bodies by sponges, with a description of a new genus and species of Monaxonida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 1: 395-401 [395] [junior homonym of Migas Koch, 1873 (Arachnida)].

  Type species:

   Migas porphyrion Sollas, 1908 by monotypy.
• Tumata 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 [77].

  Type species:

   Reniera megarrhaphea Lendenfeld, 1888 by original designation.
• Milne Laubenfels, M.W. de 1954. The sponges of the West-Central Pacific. Oregon State Monographs. Studies in Zoology 7: 1-306 pls 1-12 [116] [nom. nov. for Migas Sollas, 1908].
• Prostylissa Topsent, 1925.

  Type species:

   Prostylissa siamensis Topsent, 1925 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• van Soest, R.W.M., Diaz, M.C. & Pomponi, S.A. 1990. Phylogenetic classification of the halichondrids (Porifera, Demospongiae). Beaufortia 40(2): 15-62
• Hooper, J.N.A., Cook, S.D., Hobbs, L.J. & Kennedy, J.A. 1997. Australian Halichondriidae (Porifera: Demospongiae): I. Species from the Beagle Gulf. pp. 1-65 in Hanley, H.R., Caswell, G., Megirian, D. & Larson, H.K. (eds). The Marine Flora and Fauna of Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia. Proceedings of the Sixth International Marine Biology Workshop. Darwin : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 466 pp. [25]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, central Pacific Ocean and Japan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Encrusting to massive, occasionally with irregular branches issuing from a massive base. Firm, hard, but fragile sponges. Ectosomal skeleton tangential, with intercrossing larger oxeas and derived forms, often forming intercrossing bundles. Small oxeas and styles concentrated at the surface. Choanosomal skeleton confused, with irregular tracts of large oxeas. Approximately ten species, mostly from the Indian Ocean and West Pacific, but the genus is also recorded from Brazil (Muricy et al. 1991).

 

ID Keys

See Family Halichondriidae Diagnosis.

 

Diagnosis References

Erpenbeck, D. & van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. pp. 787-816 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. [786]

 

General References

Alvarez, B. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2011. Taxonomic revision of the order Halichondrida (Porifera: Demospongiae) of northern Australia. Family Halichondriidae. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 27: 55–84 [62]

 

History of changes

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29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
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