Genus Tedaniphorbas Laubenfels, 1936

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• Tedaniphorbas 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 [95].

  Type species:

   Amphilectus ceratosus Ridley & Dendy, 1886 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Diagnosis

Massive, lobate growth form; ectosomal skeleton detachable, composed of scattered smooth tylotes, singly or in bundles, forming a tangential skeleton; choanosomal skeleton well developed, reticulate, composed of horny spongin fibres lacking coring or echinating spicules, but with ectosomal tylotes scattered between fibres and aggregated into loose wispy tracts near the periphery; microscleres are palmate isochelae; toxas absent.

ID Keys

See Family Acarnidae Diagnosis.

Diagnosis References

Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Acarnidae Dendy, 1922. pp. 412-431 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. [426]

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