Genus Strongylamma Hallmann, 1917

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• Strongylamma Hallmann, E.F. 1917. A revision of the genera with microscleres included, or provisionally included, in the family Axinellidae, with descriptions of some Australian species. Part 3. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 634-675 4 figs pls 29/3, 5-6, 33/6, 38/5 [643].

  Type species:

   Chondropsis carteri Dendy, 1895 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Diagnosis

Encrusting, cryptic, or more massive growth forms. Skeleton of smooth strongyles as the only megascleres forming a loosely plumose skeleton. In one species the spicule bundles are reinforced by sand grains. No ectosomal specialisation. Little spongin. Microscleres onychaetes in single or 2 size classes, with or without distinct tyles. Distribution. Victoria, Tropical W Atlantic,W Africa, and Indian Ocean. Three species.

ID Keys

See Family Tedaniidae Diagnosis.

Diagnosis References

van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Tedaniidae Ridley & Dendy, 1886. pp. 625-632 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. [627]

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