Genus Scolopes Sollas, 1888

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paracordyla 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 [132].

  Type species:

   Paracordyla lignea Hallmann, 1912 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Diagnosis

Massive (gamma) growth form, with oxea megascleres in two size classes, the larger forming a compact choanosomal skeleton, the smaller forming an ectosomal palisade, and with an intermediate category of oxeas (or occasionally modified styles) forming a sparse paratangential subectosomal skeleton that protrudes through the surface. Microscleres are minute amphiasters (diplaster-like), and granulated centro-angulate microstrongyles.

ID Keys

See Family Alectonidae Diagnosis.

Diagnosis References

Rützler, K. 2002. Family Alectonidae Rosell, 1996. pp. 281-290 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. [286]

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