Species Acarnus bergquistae Van Soest, Hooper & Hiemstra, 1991

Museums

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• Acarnus bergquistae van Soest, R.W.M., Hooper, J.N.A. & Hiemstra, F. 1991. Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the marine sponge genus Acarnus (Porifera: Poecilosclerida). Beaufortia 42(3): 49-88 [61].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM GL706 (fragment NTM Z1538 - egaz), E of Lizard Is., Great Barrier Reef, QLD [14°40'S 145°28'E].
  Paratype(s) GMNH C12/28 fragments (ZMA POR 6218, MNHN Paris LBIM DT1835).

  Type locality references:

  Hooper, J.N.A. 1987. New records of Acarnus Gray (Porifera: Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida) from Australia, with a synopsis of the genus. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 25(1): 71-105 [79].

  Secondary source:

   van Soest, R.W.M., Hooper, J.N.A. & Hiemstra, F. 1991. Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the marine sponge genus Acarnus (Porifera: Poecilosclerida). Beaufortia 42(3): 49-88 [61].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Lizard Is. region, also E and W Indian Ocean (Indonesia, India, Madagascar).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth intertidal waters–54 m.

 

General References

Hooper, J.N.A. 1987. New records of Acarnus Gray (Porifera: Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida) from Australia, with a synopsis of the genus. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 25(1): 71-105 [79-83] (misidentified as Acarnus tortilis Topsent, 1897)

van Soest, R.W.M., Hooper, J.N.A. & Hiemstra, F. 1991. Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the marine sponge genus Acarnus (Porifera: Poecilosclerida). Beaufortia 42(3): 49-88 [61]

 

History of changes

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