Genus Raspailia Nardo, 1833
Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement
- Hooper, J.N.A. 1991. Revision of the family Raspailiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae), with descriptions of Australian species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5(6): 1179-1418 [1223]
- Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Raspailiidae Hentschel, 1923. pp. 469-510 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. [472]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Amphi-Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, Japan, New Zealand, S Africa, Subantarctic and Antarctic.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), 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), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)
Distribution References
- Bergquist, P.R. 1970. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 2 (Axinellida and Halichondrida). (Mem. N.Z. Oceanogr. Inst. 51). Bulletin of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 197: 1-85 20 pls 3 figs [31]
- Burton, M. 1959. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition 10(5): 151-281 41 figs [256]
- Hooper, J.N.A. & Lévi, C. 1993. Poecilosclerida from the New Caledonian lagoon (Porifera: Demospongiae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7(5): 1221-1302
Diagnosis
Arborescent, lobo-digitate to massive growth form, typically with cylindrical branches and basal holdfast. Surface even or rugose, often optically hispid. Choanosomal skeleton always with fibres and spicules in distinct tracts: axial skeleton typically compressed with widely spaced reticulate fibres cored by styles, but degree of compression varies considerably between species. Extraaxial skeleton typically plumo-reticulate, with extra-axial spicule tracts standing perpendicular to axial skeleton, cored by large styles or oxeas which ascend to and poke through surface in uni- or paucispicular brushes, although this may be reduced to simple plumose structure. Peripheral spicule tracts may be multispicular or reduced to brushes of subectosomal spicules embedded in the subdermal region. Ectosome typically with specialised skeleton of small styles grouped into brushes standing perpendicular to surface, surrounding bases of protruding extra-axial megascleres, but these may be secondarily lost. Fibres usually echinated by acanthostyles or modified forms, sometimes secondarily lost. Structural megascleres styles, oxeas or anisoxeas, typically 3, sometimes 2, distinct size categories; echinating acanthostyles morphologically similar to microcionid sponges. Microscleres absent.
ID Keys
See Family Raspailiidae Diagnosis.
Diagnosis References
Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Raspailiidae Hentschel, 1923. pp. 469-510 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. [472]
General References
Ridley, S.O. 1884. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. Alert, 1881–1882. Spongiida. (Part 1, Australian sponges). London : British Museum (Natural History) 366-482, pls 39-43. [460] (misidentified as
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 29-Mar-2018 | 15-Dec-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 29-Mar-2018 | 13-Apr-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |