Subgenus Raspailia (Clathriodendron) Lendenfeld, 1888

Museums

Regional Maps

• Clathriodendron Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [215].

  Type species:

   Clathriodendron 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 [295].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

Digitate, lobate or massive Raspailia with microconulose or less commonly hispid surface; choanosomal skeleton exclusively reticulate, with little differentiation between axial and extra-axial regions although peripheral skeleton may still contain the vestiges of radial or plumose tracts; spongin fibres generally well developed, cored by multispicular tracts of principal styles often together with sand grains or other detritus, and echinated by microcionid-like acanthostyles; longer styles may be present in the peripheral skeleton, protruding through the surface, sometimes surrounded by bouquets of ectosomal styles/anisoxeas, but often lacking a specialised ectosomal skeleton; ectosome often highly collagenous and arenaceous.

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. [476]

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