Genus Stelletta Schmidt, 1862

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stelletta Schmidt, E.O. 1862. Die Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 7 pls. [46].

  Type species:

   Stelletta grubii Schmidt, 1862 by subsequent designation, see Burton, M. & Rao, H.S. 1932. Report on the shallow-water marine sponges in the collections of the Indian Museum, Part I. Records of the Indian Museum 34: 299-356 16 figs pl. 18 [310].
• Myriastra Sollas, W.J. 1886. Preliminary account of the tetractinellid sponges dredged by H.M.S. Challenger, 1872–1876. Part 1. The Choristida. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society ns 5: 177-199 [187] [=Myriaster see Sollas, W.J. 1886. Preliminary account of the tetractinellid sponges dredged by H.M.S. Challenger, 1872–1876. Part 1. The Choristida. Sci. Proc. R. Dublin Soc. ns 5: 177–199 [188] (incorrect subsequent spelling)].

  Type species:

   Myriastra subtilis Sollas, 1886 by subsequent designation, see Sollas, W.J. 1888. Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 25(63): clxvi 1-458 44 pls 1 map [cxxxviii].
• Pilochrota Sollas, W.J. 1886. Preliminary account of the tetractinellid sponges dredged by H.M.S. Challenger, 1872–1876. Part 1. The Choristida. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society ns 5: 177-199 [189].

  Type species:

   Pilochrota haeckeli Sollas, 1886 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 [170].
• Anthastra Sollas, W.J. 1886. Preliminary account of the tetractinellid sponges dredged by H.M.S. Challenger, 1872–1876. Part 1. The Choristida. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society ns 5: 177-199 [191].

  Type species:

   Anthastra pulchra Sollas, 1886 by subsequent designation, see Sollas, W.J. 1888. Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 25(63): clxvi 1-458 44 pls 1 map [cxxxviii].
• Dorypleres Sollas, W.J. 1888. Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 25(63): clxvi 1-458 44 pls 1 map [426].

  Type species:

   Dorypleres dendyi Sollas, 1888 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lendenfeld, R. von 1903. Tetraxonia. In Schulze, F.E. (ed.) Das Tierreich. Berlin : Friedländer Lf 19 168 pp. 44 figs. [33]
• Dendy, A. 1916. Report on the Homosclerophora and Astrotetraxonida collected by H.M.S. Sealark in the Indian Ocean. In Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905. Vol. 6. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 17: 225-271 pls 44-48 [235]
• Bergquist, P.R. 1968. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 1 (Tetractinomorpha and Lithistida). Bulletin of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 188: 1-105 15 pls 30 figs [44]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), 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), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Diagnosis

Massive sponges with a more-or-less collagenous rich cortex; triaenes often abundant, more rarely absent, oxeas, and from one to three types of euasters, one of them confined to the choanosome, the other(s) sparse thorough the sponge. Occasional accessory ortho- or trichodragmata.

 

ID Keys

See Family Ancorinidae Diagnosis.

 

Diagnosis References

Uriz, M. J. 2002. Family Ancorinidae, 1870. pp. 108-126 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. [108]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)