Subgenus Callyspongia (Callyspongia) Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tuba Duchassaing, F.P. de & Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Bataafsche Hollandsche Maatschappye der Wetenschappen te Haarlem 2 21: 1-124 pls 1-25 [44] [junior homonym of Tuba Renier [1864] (Polychaeta), Tuba Oken, 1815 (? Nemertina), Tuba Fabricius, 1823 (Mollusca), Tuba Lea, 1833 (Mollusca), Tuba Barrande, 1848 (Mollusca)].

  Type species:

   Tuba sororia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 by subsequent designation, see Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [540].
• Callyspongia Duchassaing, F.P. de & Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Bataafsche Hollandsche Maatschappye der Wetenschappen te Haarlem 2 21: 1-124 pls 1-25 [57].

  Type species:

   Callyspongia fallax Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 by subsequent designation, see Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [539].
• Siphonochalina Schmidt, E.O. 1868. Die Spongien der Küste von Algier. Mit Nachträgen zu den Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 44 pp. 5 pls. [7].

  Type species:

   Siphonochalina coriacea Schmidt, 1868 by monotypy.
• Tubulodigitus Carter, H.J. 1881. Supplementary report on specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar, together with others from the sea in the vicinity of the Basse Rocks and from Bass's Straits respectively, presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt. H. Cawne Warren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 7: 361-385 pl. 18 [367].

  Type species:

   Tubulodigitus communis Carter, 1881 by monotypy.
• Patuloscula Carter, H.J. 1882. Some sponges from the West Indies and Acapulco in the Liverpool Free Museum described, with general and classificatory remarks. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 9: 266-301, 346-368 pls 11-12 [365].

  Type species:

   Patuloscula procumbens Carter, 1882 by monotypy.
• Spinosella Vosmaer, G.C.J. 1885. Porifera. In Bronn, H.G. Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thierreichs 2: 177-368 pls 19-25 [342] [nom. nov. for Tuba Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864].

  Type species:

   Tuba sororia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 by subsequent designation, see Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [540].
• Dactylochalina Lendenfeld, R. von 1886. Studies on sponges. Part 4. Two cases of mimicry in sponges. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 569-574 pls 43-44 [570].

  Type species:

   Dactylochalina cylindrica Lendenfeld, 1886 by subsequent designation, see Hooper, J.N.A. 2012. Callyspongia cylindrica (Lendenfeld, 1886). Australian Faunal Directory. Porifera. Australian Biological Resources Study. http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/909b2bab-57cf-401a-91df-a2868856a0e6 [The type species designation is taken from the on line resource AFD, see http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/909b2bab-57cf-401a-91df-a2868856a0e6) Although this is the first of the two species named in the original publication erecting the genus, this typification may need a hard copy publication to be confirmed] (checked on 2012-01-17).
• Ceraochalina Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [740] [invalid subsequent designation of Cladochalina nuda Ridley, 1884 as type species by Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Science Reports of the Geat Barrier Reef Expedition 4: 513–621 pls 1–2 (540)].

  Type species:

   Ceraochalina typica Lendenfeld, 1887 by indication.
• Chalinella Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [740].

  Type species:

   Chalinella macropora Lendenfeld, 1887 by subsequent designation, see Burton, M. 1927. A revision of the genera and species contained in Lendenfeld's 'Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes'. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 20: 289–296, 502–512 [296].
• Chalinopora Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [740] [invalid subsequent designation of type species by Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Science Reports of the Geat Barrier Reef Expedition 4: 513–621 pls 1–2 (535)].

  Type species:

   Chalinopora typica Lendenfeld, 1887 by indication.

  Secondary source:

   Burton, M. 1927. A revision of the genera and species contained in Lendenfeld's 'Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes'. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 20: 289–296, 502–512 [293].
• Placochalina Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [741].

  Type species:

   Cavochalina bilamellata Lamarck, 1814 by subsequent designation, see Laubenfels, M.W. de 1936. A discussion of the sponge fauna of the Dry Tortugas in particular, and the West Indies in general, with material for a revision of the families and orders of the Porifera. (Tortugas Lab. Paper No. 467). Publication of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Washington 30: 1-225 22 pls 1 map [59].
• Euchalina Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [742] [invalid subsequent designation of type species by Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Science Reports of the Geat Barrier Reef Expedition 4: 513–621 pls 1–2 (540)].

  Type species:

   Euchalina typica Lendenfeld, 1887 by indication.
• Siphonella Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [742] [junior homonym of Siphonella Macquart, 1835 (Diptera), Siphonella Issel, 1869 (Mollusca)].

  Type species:

   Siphonochalina fortis Ridley, 1881 by subsequent designation, see Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [540].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

Lobate repent encrusting to massive or short anastomosed upright tubes with apical oscule. Surface smooth. Single ectosomal non-hispid, layer and regular size of single, rounded to polygonal mesh. Choanosomal a well-developed network with rectangular empty mesh, primary choanosomal fibres multispicular, nonfasciculated, non ramified, spongin sheath well-defined. There may be peripheral condensation of the choanosomal skeleton. Microscleres, toxas may be present.

ID Keys

See Family Callyspongiidae Diagnosis

Diagnosis References

Desqueyroux-Faundez, R. & Valentine, C. 2002. Family Callyspongiidae de Laubenfels, 1936. pp. 835-851 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. [838]

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