Chondrilla (Chondrillidae)

Chondrilla nucula

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Chondrillida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Parazoa Phylum: Porifera Classis: Demospongiae Subclassis: Verongimorpha Ordo: Chondrillida

Familia: Chondrillidae
Genus: Chondrilla
Species (16): C. acanthastra – C. australiensis – C. caribensis – C. euastra – C. grandistellata – C. jinensis – C. kilakaria – C. linnaei – C. mixta – C. montanusa – C. nucula – C. oxyastera – C. pacifica – C. sacciformis – C. secunda – C. verrucosa

Name

Chondrilla Schmidt, 1862: 38

• Type species: Chondrilla nucula Schmidt, 1862, by subsequent designation of de Laubenfels (1936: 182).

Synonyms

• Magog Sollas, 1888: 442
  • Type species: Chondrilla sacciformis Carter, 1879, by monotypy.
• Chondrillastra Topsent, 1918: 603
  • Type species: Chondrilla australiensis Carter, 1873, by subsequent designation of de Laubenfels (1936: 180).

References

Primary references

• Schmidt, O. 1862. Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig. i–viii + 1–88 pp., pls. I–VII. Full article (PDF). GoogleBooks Reference page. 
• Sollas, W.J. 1888. Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 25(part 63): I–CLXVIII + 1–458, pl. 1–44. BHL Reference page. 
• Topsent, E. 1918. Eponges de San Thomé. Essai sur les genres Spirastrella, Donatia et Chondrilla. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale 57(6): 535–618.
• 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. Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30): 1–225, pls. 1–22. Reference page. 

Links

• Chondrilla (Chondrillidae) in the World Register of Marine Species

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