Species Cliona hixoni (Lendenfeld, 1886)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Raphyrus hixoni Lendenfeld, R. von 1886. Studies on sponges. Part 2. Raphyrus hixonii. A new gigantic sponge from Port Jackson. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 562-568 pls 40-42 [562].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM Z1489–1491 wet, 5 fragments of type (probably from Z1492 (NMV photos 30/26–28)), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM Z1492 wet (NMV photos 29/25–28), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM Z1449 wet, 2 fragments of type (NMV photos 31/1–3), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM G9176 dry (NMV photos 5/21–24), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.605 dry (not found, =AM G3643 slide), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; ZMB 1125 5 slides, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; ZMB 2259 slide (as Vioa ), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH '1125' 1/101 unregistered slide, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
• Papillissa lutea Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [64] [caption of pl. 1 fig. 1, as Papillina panis, erroneous =Cliona (Papillissa) lutea, see Hallmann, E.F. 1914. A revision of the monaxonid species described as new in Lendenfeld's ‘Catalogue of the sponges in the Australian Museum’. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 263–315 1 fig. pls 15–24].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM 5 wet specimens in one jar (labels partly detached; two of these may be Whitelegge hypotypes, NMV photos 14/10–13), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM Z1481 wet, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM Z1485 wet, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM Z1488, Z1488b wet, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM G9098 wet, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.596 wet, lost, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].

  Secondary source:

   Hallmann, E.F. 1914. A revision of the monaxonid species described as new in Lendenfeld's 'Catalogue of the sponges in the Australian Museum'. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39(Part 1): 263–315 1 fig. pls 15–24 [297].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• van Soest, R. 2011. Pione hixoni (Lendenfeld, 1886). In: Van Soest, R.W.M, Boury-Esnault, N., Hooper, J.N.A., Rützler, K, de Voogd, N.J., Alvarez de Glasby, B., Hajdu, E., Pisera, A.B., Manconi, R., Schoenberg, C., Janussen, D., Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M., Picton, B., Kelly, M., Vacelet, J. (2011) World Porifera database. Accessed through: Van Soest, R.W.M, Boury-Esnault, N., Hooper, J.N.A., Rützler, K, de Voogd, N.J., Alvarez de Glasby, B., Hajdu, E., Pisera, A.B., Manconi, R., Schoenberg, C., Janussen, D., Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M., Picton, B., Kelly, M., Vacelet, J. (2011) World Porifera database at http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=170504 on 2012-01-13. http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=170504 (checked on 2012-01-13)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Known only from central and southern east coast; gamma (massive) stage only known.

 

General References

Hooper, J.N.A. & Kennedy, J.A. 2002. Small-scale patterns of sponge biodiversity (Porifera) on Sunshine Coast reefs, eastern Australia. Invertebrate Systematics 16(4): 637-653 [640] (Listed in this article)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)