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Fauna of the Chilka Lake : Sponges. 



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GEOGRAPHICAL LIST OF SPECIES. 



in.a. = main area : o.ch. = outer channel : sp. gr. = specific gravity of water. 





Chilka Lake. 













Further distribution. 









sp. gr. 





m.a. 



o.ch. 







MONAXONELXIDA. 











SPONGILLIDAE. 











Spongilla alba 

 Spongilla nana* 



X 

 X 



X 



India ; Egypt (fresh and brack- 

 ish water) 



1 000 — 1-0065 

 ca. i-ooo 



C LION I DAE. 











Cliona vastifica 



X 



X 



Cosmopolitan (marine) 



rooo — 1-0265 



SUBERITIDAE. 











Suberites sericeus 

 Laxosuberites aquae- dulcioris . . 

 Laxosuberites lacustris* 



XXX 



X 

 X 



Japan (marine) 

 Madras (brackish water) 



i-ooo — 1-0145 

 i-ooo — 1-0265 

 i-ooo — 1-0150 



TET R AXON ELLID A . 











TETILLIDAE. 











Tetilla dactyloidea var. lingua* 





X 



Typical form in Arabian Sea 

 and off Mergui (marine) . . 



i-ooo 



1849 



1849 

 1863 



1863 

 1881 



1895 

 1899 



1906 



1907 

 1907 



Suborder SIGMATOMONAXONELLIDA. 



Family SPONGILLIDAE. 



Genus SPONGILLA, Lamarck. 



Subgenus Euspongilla, Vejdovsky. 



Spongilla alba, Carter. 



(Plate iii; plate iv, figs. 1, 2; plate v, fig. 1.) 



Spongilla alba, Carter, /. Bomb. Asiat. Soc. Ill, p. 32, pi. i, fig. 4. 



„ id., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) IV, p. 83, pi. iii, fig 4. 



,, Bowerbank, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 463, pi. xxxviii, fig. 15. 

 cerebellata, id., ibid., p. 465, pi. xxxviii, fig. 16. 

 alba var. cerebellata, and Carter, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) VII, 



p. 83. 

 cerebellata, Weltner, Arch. Natur g . LXI (i), p. 117. 

 alba, Petr, Rozp. Ceske Ak. Praze II, pi. i, figs. 3-6. 

 lacustris var. bengalensis , Annandale, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 



p. 56. 

 • cerebellata, Kirkpatrick, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) XX, p. 523. 

 alba, Annandale, Rec. Ind. Mus. I, p. 388, pi. xiv, fig. 2. 



