Genus Zyzzya Laubenfels, 1936

Museums

Regional Maps

• Zyzzya 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 [64].

  Type species:

   Plocamia massalis Dendy, 1922 by original designation.
• Damirina Burton, M. 1959. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition 10(5): 151-281 41 figs [240].

  Type species:

   Damirina verticillata Burton, 1959 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bergquist, P.R. & Fromont, J. 1988. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 4 (Poecilosclerida). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 96: 1-197 pls 1-57 [56]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Mauritius, Zanzibar, Seychelles, Madagascar, New Zealand and Western Australia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Massive, burrowing, fistulose or cryptic encrusting growth form with solid apical fistules or blind papillae; ectosomal skeleton thick detachable crust of tangentially orientated tylotes with
microspined bases; choanosomal skeleton with distinctive irregular or plumose multispicular, widely spaced tracts ascending to the surface cored by the same tylotes, interspersed with a unispicular, irregular isodictyal reticulation of verticillately-spined strongyles (or strongyloxeas); microscleres if present are palmate isochelae and toxas.

 

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. [430]

 

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)