Genus Scopalina Schmidt, 1862

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hoplochalina Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [822].

  Type species:

   Hoplochalina incrustans Lendenfeld, 1887 by subsequent designation, see van Soest, R.W.M. 1980. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part II. Haplosclerida. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 62(191): 1-173 49 figs 18 pls [118].
• Haliclonissa Burton, M. 1932. Sponges. Discovery Reports 6: 237-392 56 figs pls 48-57 [270].

  Type species:

   Haliclonissa verrucosa Burton, 1932 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Diagnosis

Encrusting sheets with surface covered in sharp conules. Soft consistency. Ectosomal skeleton absent. Choanosome characteristically grainy in appearance. Choanosomal skeleton consisting of bundles of thin styles entirely enclosed in spongin. Fibres dendritic rising up from a basal spongin plate. Low spicular density and soft consistency. Half a dozen species distributed over all warmer parts of the world oceans.

ID Keys

See Family Dictyonellidae Diagnosis

Diagnosis References

van Soest, R.W.M., Erpenbeck, D. & Alvarez De Glasby, B. 2002. Family Dictyonellidae Van Soest, Diaz & Pomponi, 1990. pp. 773-786 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. [781]

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