Subgenus Mycale (Mycale) Gray, 1867

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mycale 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 [533].

  Type species:

   Hymeniacidon lingua Bowerbank, 1863 by subsequent designation, see Thiele, J. 1903. Kieselschwämme von Ternate. II. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 25: 933-968 pl. 28 [949].
• Raphiodesma Bowerbank, J.S. 1874. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. London : Ray Society Vol. 3 367 pp. 92 pls. [235] [junior objective synonym of Mycale Gray, 1867].

  Type species:

   Raphiodesma lingua Bowerbank, 1863 by subsequent designation, see Hallmann, E.F. 1914. A revision of the monaxonid species described as new in Lendenfeld's 'Catalogue of the sponges in the Australian Museum'. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39(Part 3): 398–446 23 figs [399].
• Raphioderma Norman, A.M. 1869. Shetland final dredging report. Part II. On the Crustacea, Tunicata, Polyzoa, Echinodermata, Actinozoa, Hydrozoa, and Porifera. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Oxford) 38(1868): 247-336 [333].

  Type species:

   Raphioderma coacervata Bowerbank, 1869 by monotypy.
• Mycalecarmia 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 [120].

  Type species:

   Esperella lapidiformis Ridley & Dendy, 1886 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Diagnosis

Mycale with a confused tangential ectosomal skeleton (many with pore-grooves, and/or three categories of anisochelae, and/or basally-spurred anisochelae-III, and/or raphides in two categories).

ID Keys

See Genus Mycale Diagnosis

Diagnosis References

van Soest, R.W.M. & Hajdu, E. 2002. Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. pp. 669-690 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. [672]

History of changes