Genus Strongylacidon Lendenfeld, 1897
- Strongylacidon Lendenfeld, R. von 1897. Spongien von Sansibar. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 21: 93-133 pls 9-10 [110].
Type species:
Strongylacidon sansibarensis Lendenfeld, 1897 by monotypy.
Distribution
States
Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
West Indian region, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region and New Zealand.
IMCRA
Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)
Distribution References
- Bergquist, P.R. & Fromont, J. 1988. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 4 (Poecilosclerida). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 96: 1-197 pls 1-57
- Wiedenmayer, F. 1977. Shallow-water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel : Birkhäuser (Experientia Suppl. 28) 287 pp. 43 pls.
Diagnosis
Encrusting to massive; ectosomal skeleton with protruding brushes of stongyles from the ascending choanosomal fibres; choanosomal skeleton plumose in encrusting specimens becoming plumoreticulate in more massive specimens; fibres cored by strongyles and occasionally some detritus; microscleres are unguiferous-arcuate isochelae and/or sigmas. About 15 species.
ID Keys
See Family Chondropsidae Diagnosis.
Diagnosis References
van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Chondropsidae Carter, 1886. pp. 521-527 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. [524]
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) |