Species Adreus australiensis (Ridley, 1884)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Raspailia (Syringella) australiensis 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. [460].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1882.2.23.253 wet, Darwin, NT.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1882.2.23.254 wet.

 

Generic Combinations

• Adreus australiensis (Ridley, 1884). —
  Sorokin, S.J., Ekins, M.G., Yang, Q. & Cárdenas, P. 2019. A new deep-water Tethya (Porifera, Tethyida, Tethyidae) from the Great Australian Bight and an updated Tethyida phylogeny. European Journal of Taxonomy 529: 1–26
• Raspailia (Parasyringella) australiensis (Ridley, 1884). —
  Sorokin, S.J., Ekins, M.G., Yang, Q. & Cárdenas, P. 2019. A new deep-water Tethya (Porifera, Tethyida, Tethyidae) from the Great Australian Bight and an updated Tethyida phylogeny. European Journal of Taxonomy 529: 1–26

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known from Darwin, NT, northern inter-reef region Great Barrier Reef, to Moreton Bay, SE Queensland.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 7–21 m.

 

General References

Erpenbeck, D., List-Armitage, S., Alvarez, B., Degnan, B.M., Wörheide, G. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2007. The systematics of Raspailiidae (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida: Microcionina) re-analysed with a ribosomal marker. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 87: 1571–1576 [1573]

Hooper, J.N.A. 1991. Revision of the family Raspailiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae), with descriptions of Australian species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5(6): 1179-1418 [1256]

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] [8]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-Mar-2022	DEMOSPONGIAE Sollas, 1885	09-Aug-2021	MODIFIED
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		02-May-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)