Genus Fenestraspongia Bergquist, 1980

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• Fenestraspongia Bergquist, P.R. 1980. A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida (Class Demospongiae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 7: 443-503 figs 1-25 pls [474].

  Type species:

   Hircinia intertexta Carter, 1885 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Diagnosis

Upright, thickly lamellate or cylindrical and tubular forms. The surface is unarmoured, conulose and raised into characteristic intersecting, plate-like ridges (Fig. 5A), i.e. fenestrate. These sponges have a fibre skeleton made up of primary, secondary and tertiary fibres (Fig. 5B). Primary fibres are cored, and form strong fascicles that curve towards the surface. Secondary fibres are uncored and branching, and form a moderately dense reticulum. Tertiary fibres are uncored, very fine, and occur within the meshes of the secondary fibre reticulum.

ID Keys

See Subfamily Thorectinae Diagnosis

Diagnosis References

Cook, S.D.C. & Bergquist, P.R. 2002. Family Thorectidae Bergquist, 1978. pp. 1028-1050 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. [1039]

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