Genus Regadrella Schmidt, 1880

Museums

Regional Maps

• Regadrella Schmidt, O. 1880. Die Spongien des Meerbusen von Mexico (und des Caraibischen Meeres). Abtheilung II. Hexactinelliden. Heft II. In Reports on the dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, by the USCSS Blake. Gustav Fischer: Jena. pp. 33-90, pls V-X.

  Type species:

   Regadrella phoenix Schmidt, 1880 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Reiswig, H.M. 1992. First Hexactinellida (Porifera) (glass sponges) from the Great Australian Bight. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 26: 25-36.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Diagnosis

Body is saccular with numerous lateral oscula and with colander-like sieve-plate or with radically directed beams of prostralia osculaia, basiphytose. Choanosomal spicules are predominately diactines with additional hexactines and other hexactine derivatives. Prostalia lateralia, if present, are giant hexactines. Dermalia are hexactines. Atrialia are pentactines. Microscleres are floricomes, graphiocomes, onychohexasters, hemionychohexasters, hexasters or staurasters.

ID Keys

See Subfamily Corbitellinae Diagnosis.

Diagnosis References

Tabachnick, K. 2002. Family Euplectellidae Gray, 1867. pp. 1388-1434 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 2. [1427]

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