Genus Terpios Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
- Terpios Duchassaing, F.P. de & Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Bataafsche Hollandsche Maatschappye der Wetenschappen te Haarlem 2 21: 1-124 pls 1-25 [97].
Type species:
Terpios fugax Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 by subsequent designation, see Topsent, E. 1900. Etude monographique des Spongiaires de France. III. Monaxonida (Hadromerina). Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 3 8: 1-331 pls 1-8 [192]. - Terpiosella Burton, M. 1930. Additions to the sponge fauna of the Gulf of Manaar. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 5: 665-676 [675].
Type species:
Ophlitaspongia fucoides Bowerbank, 1876 by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Wiedenmayer, F. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994] [411]
Distribution
States
Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Amphi-Atlantic (North Sea, NE and central Atlantic, Caribbean), Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, W, central and E Pacific Oceans and Japan.
IMCRA
Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)
Distribution References
- 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
Diagnosis
Thinly encrusting sponges with optically smooth surface, but microscopically hispid due to projecting spicules. Consistency gelatinous, soft. No special ectosomal skeleton other than brush-like endings of the weakly developed choanosomal spicule strands. Choanosome with relatively low spicular density and many loose spicules in confusion. Bacterial symbionts of common occurrence and often causing blue-pigmented or other bright coloration. Spicules thin relatively short tylostyles in a single size category and possessing characteristic flattened-lobate or lumpy, wrinkled tyles. Distributed over all three oceans with a predominance in warm or warm-temperate waters. About 10–15 species have been described.
ID Keys
See Family Suberitidae Diagnosis.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29-Mar-2018 | 15-Dec-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 29-Mar-2018 | 13-Apr-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |