Species Acarnus ternatus Ridley, 1884

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acarnus ternatus Ridley, S.O. 1884. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. Alert, 1881–1882. Spongiida. (Part 1, Australian sponges). London : British Museum (Natural History) 366-482, pls 39-43. [453].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1882.23.262 wet (egaz), 12 m, Prince of Wales Channel, Torres Strait [10°30'S 142°15'E].
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1882.23.248 wet, 2 specimens, West Is. [?]; BMNH 1882.23.249 wet, West Is. [??].

  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 [83].

  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 [56].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Torres Strait, also Red Sea, Amirante Ils, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Tahiti.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth intertidal waters–80 m.

 

General References

Lévi, C. 1958. Résultats scientifiques des campagnes de la Calypso. Campagne 1951–1952 en Mer Rouge. Spongiaires de Mer Rouge recueillies par la Calypso (1951–1952). Annales de l'Institut Océanographie, Monaco & Paris ns 34: 3-46 [36]

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 [54]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		02-May-2011	MODIFIED
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