Genus Suberea Bergquist, 1995

Museums

Regional Maps

• Suberea Bergquist, P.R. 1995. Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida from the New Caledonia Lagoon (Porifera: Demospongiae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38(1): 1-51 [41].

  Type species:

   Subera creba Bergquist, 1995 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Diagnosis

Aplysinellidae with coarse irregular dendritic fibres in which bark and pith elements are present but the pith predominates. The bark is strongly laminated and very brittle. Fibres can be very thick and render the texture of the sponge interior very rough to the touch. Dense collagen reinforces the matrix, making the sponges hard, to just compressible. The surface is smooth or conulose and the sponge form massive, sometimes stalked or branching. With the addition of the species referred below, there are eight described species of Suberea.

ID Keys

See Family Aplysinellidae Diagnosis.

Diagnosis References

Bergquist, P.R. & Cook, S.D.C. 2002. Family Aplyinellidae Bergquist, 1980. pp. 1094-1096 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. [1096]

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