Genus Strepsichordaia Bergquist, Ayling & Wilkinson, 1988
- Strepsichordaia Bergquist, P.R., Ayling, A.M. & Wilkinson, C.R. 1988. Foliose Dictyoceratida of the Australian Great Barrier Reef. 1. Taxonomy and Phylogenetic relationships. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli I: Marine Ecology 9(4): 291-320 [312].
Type species:
Strepsichordaia lendenfeldi Bergquist, Ayling & Wilkinson, 1988 by original designation.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Madagascar and the Philippines.
IMCRA
Northwest Shelf Province (27), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Distribution References
Diagnosis
Caliculate, lamellate or foliose sponges (Fig. 8D–E), with a characteristically smooth, heavily armoured surface. Small, flush oscules are evenly distributed over the oscular face, each at the centre of a stellate pattern created by superficial exhalant canals. The poral face is smooth. The irregular fibre skeleton comprises primary, secondary and tertiary fibres (Fig. 8F). Primary fibres are simple and branching, not fasciculate, and are heavily cored with foreign debris. Secondary fibres are similar in size and coring to the primary fibres, and are only distinguishable by their orientation to the surface. The long, uncored, vermiform tertiary fibres arise from both primary and secondary, forming a dense mat which dominates the fibre skeleton. These fibres meander for considerable distances without branching, have no fixed orientation, do not form fascicles, and only occasionally interconnect. The consistency is firm, tough, flexible, and barely compressible.
ID Keys
See Subfamily Phyllospongiinae Diagnosis
Diagnosis References
Cook, S.D.C. & Bergquist, P.R. 2002. Family Thorectidae Bergquist, 1978. pp. 1028-1050 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. [1048]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 29-Mar-2018 | 15-Dec-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 29-Mar-2018 | 13-Apr-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |