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• Hircinia flagelliformis Carter, H.J. 1886. Supplement to the descriptions of Mr. J. Bracebridge Wilson's Australian sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 18: 369-379 [372] [unrecognisable; redescribed in Aplysina in Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. (412, pl. 27 fig. 10) (specimen BMNH 1886.12.15.242)].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1886.12.15.242 dry (NMV photos 53/27–29), Westernport Bay, VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.301 dry.

  Secondary source:

   Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls.
• Hircinia solida Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 15: 301-321 [310] [generic identity confused and deemed presently unrecognisable; confused with Hircinia (=Fenestraspongia) intertexta by Carter, H.J. 1885. Mode of circulation in the Spongida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 15: 117–122 pl. 4 figs 5, 7 (120, 121) and partly by Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. (444, pl. 38 fig. 2) only; type data in Bergquist, P.R. 1980. A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida (Class Demospongiae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 7: 443–503 figs 1–25 pls (464) misleading, but probably correct regarding the need for a new genus in Verongida; lectotype figured in Lendenfeld op. cit. pl. 28 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH unregistered dry (NMV photos 54/2,3), 37 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.306 dry (NMV photos 54/4,5, =AM G2849 slide); BMNH 1886.12.15.308 dry (NMV photo 54/6, =AM G2843 slide).

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