Genus Spirastrella Schmidt, 1868

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spirastrella Schmidt, E.O. 1868. Die Spongien der Küste von Algier. Mit Nachträgen zu den Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 44 pp. 5 pls. [17].

  Type species:

   Spirastrella cunctatrix Schmidt, 1868 by monotypy.
• Chondrillina 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 [182].

  Type species:

   Chondrilla phyllodes Schmidt, 1870 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wiedenmayer, F. 1977. Shallow-water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel : Birkhäuser (Experientia Suppl. 28) 287 pp. 43 pls. [162]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Amphi-Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, S Africa, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, New Zealand, Japan, W central and E Pacific Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Spirastrellidae with dense layers of spirasters in both ectosomal and basal choanosomal regions of the sponge. Spirasters are very common and of considerable size range; tylostyles comparatively small and rare.

 

ID Keys

See Family Spirostrellidae Diagnosis.

 

Diagnosis References

Rützler, K. 2002. Family Spirastrellidae Ridley & Dendy, 1886. pp. 220-223 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. [223]

 

General References

Hartman, W.D. & Goreau, T.F. 1970. Jamaican coralline sponges: their morphology, ecology and fossil relatives. In The biology of the Porifera. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London 25: 205-243 [2] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

 

History of changes

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