Genus Cymbastela Hooper & Bergquist, 1992
Compiler and date details
28/5/2010 - John Hooper
- Cymbastela Hooper, J.N.A. & Bergquist, P.R. 1992. Cymbastela, a new genus of lamellate coral reef sponges. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 32(1): 99-137 [103].
Type species:
Pseudaxinyssa stipitata Bergquist & Tizard, 1967 by original designation.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Central W and NW Australia, N Australia, NE and central E Australia; also New Caledonia; known only from Australasia.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)
Distribution References
Diagnosis
Cup-shaped, thinly lamellate or lamellate-flattened-encrusting habit. Surface smooth with choanosomal or ectosomal spicules projecting slightly; with or without specialised skeleton of smaller oxeas. Choanosomal skeleton generally differentiated in axial and extra-axial regions; axial skeleton condensed or vaguely reticulated; extra-axial skeleton plumoreticulate with plumose spicule tracts enveloped with thin sheets of spongin or well formed spongin fibres. Megascleres are oxeas often with telescoped points (emended from Hooper & Bergquist 1992; Van Soest et al. 1996b).
ID Keys
See Family Axinellidae Diagnosis
Diagnosis References
Alvarez De Glasby, B. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Axinellidae Carter, 1875. pp. 724-747 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. [732]
General References
Bergquist, P.R. & Tizard, C.A. 1967. Australian intertidal sponges from the Darwin area. Micronesica 3: 175-202 6 pls [190] (misidentified as
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) |