Species Echinodictyum asperum Ridley & Dendy, 1886
- Echinodictyum asperum Ridley, S.O. & Dendy, A. 1886. Preliminary report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. Challenger. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 18: 325-351, 470-493 [477].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1887.5.2.17 wet, Papeete Harbour, Tahiti.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
This species has a wide distribution within the tropical Indo-west Pacific, with specimens examined from Papiete, Tahiti (type locality) (Ridley & Dendy 1886, 1887), to Tuticorin, India (Burton & Rao 1932), Tuvalu (Ellice Is) (Whitelegge 1897), Ambon, Indonesia (Topsent 1897; Desqueyroux-Faundez 1981), Lucap Bay, Philippines (Lévi 1961), northwest Australia and Northern Territory (Hooper 1991), Chuuk, Palau; and along the northeast coast of Australia from Torres Strait to the Moreton Bay region (Hooper et al. 2008).
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.
Extra Ecological Information
Depth 6–94 m depth.
General References
Hooper, J.N.A. 1991. Revision of the family Raspailiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae), with descriptions of Australian species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5(6): 1179-1418 [1353]
Hooper, J.N.A., Capon, R.J., Keenan, C.P., Parry, D.L. & Smit, N. 1992. Chemotaxonomy of marine sponges: families Microcionidae, Raspailiidae and Axinellidae, and their relationships with other families in the orders Poecilosclerida and Axinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6(2): 261-301 [263]
Hooper, J.N.A., Sutcliffe, P. & Schlacher-Hoenlinger, M.A. 2008. New species of Raspailiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida) from southeast Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 54(1): 1–22 [In, Davie, P.J.F. & Phillips, J.A. (Eds), Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay, Queensland] [13]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 29-Mar-2018 | 15-Dec-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 29-Mar-2018 | 13-Apr-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |