Genus Trachycladus Carter, 1879
- Trachycladus Carter, H.J. 1879. Contributions to our knowledge of the Spongida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 3: 284-304, 343-360 pls 25-29 [343].
Type species:
Trachycladus laevispirulifer Carter, 1879 by monotypy. - Spirophora Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [794] [junior homonym of Spirophora Milne-Edwards, 1836 (Bryozoa), Spirophora Zopf, 1884 (Protozoa)].
Type species:
Spirophora digitata Lendenfeld, 1887 by subsequent designation, see 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]. - Spirophorella Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [236] [probably intended as nom. nov. for Spirophora, although not stated].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Hallmann, E.F. 1914. A revision of the monaxonid species described as new in Lendenfeld's 'Catalogue of the sponges in the Australian Museum'. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39(Part 3): 398–446 23 figs [429]
- Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Trachycladidae Hallmann, 1917. pp. 268-274 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. [268]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
New Zealand, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa
IMCRA
Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)
Distribution References
Diagnosis
Tubulo-digitate, arborescent, whip-like to flabellate, rarely encrusting growth forms. Ectosome with a distinct cortex packed with spinispirae. Choanosomal skeleton compressed in the axial region, plumoreticulate in the extra-axial region, with paucispicular connecting fibres. Fibres fully cored by oxeas, but also including styloid or strongyloid modifications resembling strongyloxeas, anisoxeas, mucronated anisoxeas, true styles or strongyles, and in one species tylostyles. Microscleres are ‘spinispirae’, smooth or minutely spined, with spines forming longitudinal rows along the shaft, and the geometry of the shaft ranging from simply curved, c-shaped, to twisted with up to two complete turns, and also with microrhabds, smooth or occasionally faintly centrotylote.
ID Keys
See Family Trachycladidae Diagnosis.
Diagnosis References
Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Trachycladidae Hallmann, 1917. pp. 268-274 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. [269]
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) |