Thorectidae Explained

Thorectidae is a family of sea sponges in the order Dictyoceratida.

Genera

• Subfamily Phyllospongiinae Keller, 1889^[1]
  • Candidaspongia Bergquist, Sorokin & Karuso, 1999^[2]
  • Carteriospongia Hyatt, 1877^[3]
  • Lendenfeldia Bergquist, 1980^[4]
  • Phyllospongia Ehlers, 1870^[5]
  • Strepsichordaia Bergquist, Ayling & Wilkinson, 1988^[6]
• Subfamily Thorectinae Bergquist, 1978
  • Aplysinopsis von Lendenfeld, 1888^[7]
  • Cacospongia Schmidt, 1862^[8]
  • Collospongia Bergquist, Cambie & Kernan, 1990^[9]
  • Dactylospongia Bergquist, 1965^[10]
  • Fascaplysinopsis Bergquist, 1980^[4]
  • Fasciospongia Burton, 1934^[11]
  • Fenestraspongia Bergquist, 1980^[4]
  • Hyrtios Duchassaing de Fonbressin & Michelotti, 1864^[12]
  • Luffariella Thiele, 1899^[13]
  • Narrabeena de Cook & Bergquist, 2002^[14]
  • Petrosaspongia Bergquist, 1995^[15]
  • Scalarispongia de Cook & Bergquist, 2000^[16]
  • Semitaspongia de Cook & Bergquist, 2000^[16]
  • Smenospongia Wiedenmayer, 1977^[17]
  • Taonura Carter, 1882^[18]
  • Thorecta von Lendenfeld, 1888^[7]
  • Thorectandra von Lendenfeld, 1889^[19]
  • Thorectaxia Pulitzer-Finali & Pronzato, 1999^[20]

Notes and References

1. Keller, C. (1889). Die Spongienfauna des rothen Meeres (1. Hälfte). Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 48, 311–405.
2. Bergquist, P., Sorokin, S. & Karuso, P. (1999). Pushing the boundaries: a new genus and species of Dictyoceratida. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 44, 57–62.
3. Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferæ; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Boston: Society of Natural History.
4. Bergquist, P. R. (1960). A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida, and Verongida (class Demospongiae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 7(4), 443–503.
5. Ehlers, E. (1870). Die Esper'schen Spongien in der zoologischen Sammlung der K. Universität Erlangen. Programm zum Eintritt in den Senat der Königlichen Friedrich-Alexanders-Universität in Erlangen. Erlangen: Druck der Universitäts-Buchdruckerei von E. Th. Jacob.
6. Bergquist, P. R., Ayling, A. M. & Wilkinson, C. R. (1988). Foliose Dictyoceratida of the Australian Great Barrier Reef. Marine Ecology, 9(4), 291–319.
7. von Lendenfeld, R. (1888). Descriptive Catalogue of the Spones in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London: Taylor and Francis.
8. Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.
9. Bergquist, P. R., Cambie, R. C. & Kernan, M. R. (1990). Scalarane sesterterpenes from Collospongia auris, a new thorectid sponge. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 18(5), 349–357.
10. Bergquist, P. R. (1965). The sponges of Micronesia, Part I. The Palau Archipelago. Pacific Science, 19, 123–204.
11. Burton, M. (1934). Sponges. Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928–29, Scientific Reports, 4, 513–621.
12. Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P. & Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la Mer Caraïbe. Haarlem: De Erven Loosjes.
13. Thiele, J. (1899). Zoologica. Original-Abhandlungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der Zoologie. Stuttgart: Erwin Nägele.
14. de Cook, S. C. & Bergquist, P. R. (2002). Family Thorectidae Bergquist, 1978. In Hooper, J. N. A. & van Soest, R. W. N. (Eds.), Systema Porifera: A Guide to the Classification of Sponges. Boston: Springer.
15. Bergquist, P. R. (1995). Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida, and Verongida from the New Caledonia lagoon (Porifera: Demospongiae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 38, 1–51.
16. de Cook, S. C. & Bergquist, P. R. (2000). Two new genera and five new species of the “Cacospongia” group (Porifera, Demospongiae, Dictyoceratida). Zoosystema, 22(2), 383–400.
17. Wiedenmayer, F. (1977). Shallow-Water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel: Springer Basel AG.
18. Carter, H. J. (1882). New sponges, observations on old ones, and a proposed new group. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 10(56), 106–125.
19. von Lendenfeld, R. (1889). A monograph of the horny sponges. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology, 6(6), 418–423.
20. Pulitzer-Finali, G. & Pronzato, R. (1999). Horny sponges from the north-eastern coast of Papua New Guinea, Bismark Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 79(4), 593–607.