Calthropellidae Lendenfeld 1907 ...

• Main Author: Łukowiak, Magdalena
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Demospongiae; Astrophorida; Calthropellidae; New Zealand; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6108546; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6108546

Family Calthropellidae Lendenfeld, 1907 Some calthrops occurring in the studied material (Figs. 5 I, J) belong most likely to calthropellid sponges. This small astrophorid family is, like the family Pachastrellidae, characterized by calthrop megascleres, modified triaenes and tetractines, mesotriaenes and oxeas (van Soest & Hooper 2002b). Thus some of the calthrops discussed here may belong to the Calthropella -like sponge. However, the more precise taxonomic assignment of studied spicules is not possible unless the whole set of spicules is preserved. Calthropellids are reported from warmer parts of the oceans, from moderately deep water (about 600 m depth) and occasionally from the littoral zone, with records from the North Atlantic, Mediterranean, South and East Africa, Indonesia, and New Zealand (van Soest & Hooper 2002b). There are two species of Calthropella recorded from Australia adjacent areas: C. (Pachataxa) enigmatica (Lévi & Lévi, 1983) from New Caledonia and C. (Corticellopsis) ... : Published as part of Łukowiak, Magdalena, 2015, Late Eocene siliceous sponge fauna of southern Australia: reconstruction based on loose spicules record, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 3917 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3917.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/287785 ...