Subgenus Raspailia (Parasyringella) Topsent, 1928

Museums

Regional Maps

• Parasyringella Topsent, E. 1928. Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert Ier de Monaco. Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco 74: 1-376 11 pls [287].

  Type species:

   Raspailia (Syringella) falcifera Topsent, 1892 by indication.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Diagnosis

Unbranched cylindrical, digitate or whip-like Raspailia usually with a hispid surface; skeleton divided into distinct axial and extra-axial regions; axial skeleton compressed highly compacted reticulation of fibres and multispicular tracts running mainly longitudinally through branches to produce a flexible skeleton, cored by shorter principal styles; extra-axial skeleton composed of multispicular tracts cored by larger extra-axial styles together forming discrete bundles embedded in the axial skeleton and extending radially to the surface, with single or bundles of extra-axial styles protruding a short way through the surface, and surrounded by bouquets of ectosomal styles; megascleres include at least 2–3 size classes of styles, with the smaller ones sometimes modified to anisoxeas.

ID Keys

See Family Raspailiidae

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. [478]

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