Subgenus Antho (Acarnia) Gray, 1867

Museums

Regional Maps

• Plocamia Schmidt, E.O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des Atlantischen Gebietes. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 6 pls. [62].

  Type species:

   Plocamia gymnazusa Schmidt, 1870 by subsequent designation, see Burton, M. 1935. The family Plocamiidae, with descriptions of four new genera of sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 15: 399-404 [401].
• Dirrhopalum Ridley, S.O. & Duncan, P.M. 1881. On the genus Plocamia Schmidt, and on some other sponges of the order Echinonemata. With descriptions of two additional new species of Dirrhopalum. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 15: 476-497 pls 28-29 [477] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Plocamia Schmidt, 1870].
• Heteroclathria Topsent, E. 1904. Spongiaires des Açores. Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco 25: 1-280 18 pls [93].

  Type species:

   Heteroclathria hallezi Topsent, 1904 by original designation.
• Plocamiopsis Topsent, E. 1904. Spongiaires des Açores. Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco 25: 1-280 18 pls [155].

  Type species:

   Plocamiopsis signata Topsent, 1904 by monotypy.
• Lissoplocamia Brøndsted, H.V. 1924. Sponges from New Zealand. Part I. In Mortensen, T. (ed.) Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition, 1914–16. XXIII. Vidensk. Meddr. Dansk Naturh. Foren. Kbh. 77: 435–483. [470].

  Type species:

   Lissoplocamia prima Brøndsted, 1924 by original designation.
• Plocamilla Topsent, E. 1928. Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert Ier de Monaco. Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco 74: 1-376 11 pls [63].

  Type species:

   Isodictya coriacea Bowerbank, 1874 by original designation.
• Holoplocamia 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 [75].

  Type species:

   Holoplocamia penneyi de Laubenfels, 1936 by original designation.
• Acarnia Gray, J.E. 1867. Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the description of some new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 492-558 pls 27-28 [515].

  Type species:

   Hymeniacidon cliftoni Bowerbank, 1862 by monotypy.
• Echinoplocamia Burton, M. 1959. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition 10(5): 151-281 41 figs [252].

  Type species:

   Echinoplocamia arbuscula Burton, 1959 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hooper, J.N.A. 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] [255]
• Hooper, J.N.A. 1996. Revision of Microcionidae (Porifera: Poecilosclerida: Demospongiae), with description of Australian species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 40: 1-626 [Date published 01/06/1996] [422]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Diagnosis

Encrusting, lobate, digitate and flabellate growth forms; with regular basal or axial renieroid skeleton of acanthostrongyles (less frequently acanthostyles or smooth tylostrongyles), with or without spongin fibres. Renieroid tracts may be echinated by acanthostyles at spongin fibre nodes. Basal renieroid skeleton overlays hymedesmioid, leptoclathriid or microcionid main skeleton composed of echinating (acantho-)styles and/or choanosomal styles, standing perpendicular to base or axis, joining with echinating megascleres to produce ascending plumose skeletal tracts. Extraaxial (subectosomal) skeleton plumose, dendritic, or subisodictyal, composed of choanosomal styles, originating from substrate or simply confined to periphery, forming tangential, paratangential or plumose extra-axial tracts. Ectosomal skeleton with or without specialised spiculation (one or two categories of auxiliary styles). Microscleres include diverse forms of isochelae and toxas.

ID Keys

See Family Microcionidae Diagnosis

Diagnosis References

Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Microcionidae Carter, 1875. pp. 432-468 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. [458]

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