Species Amorphinopsis excavans Carter, 1887

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amorphinopsis excavans Carter, H.J. 1887. Report on the marine sponges, chiefly from King Island in the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr John Anderson. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology Zool. 21: 61-84 pls 5-7 [77].

  Type data:

   Holotype IM 6597/7 dry (fragment of type ZEV - egaz), Burma, Mergui Archipelago [12°13'30"N 97°04'04"E].

  Secondary source:

   Annandale, N. 1915. Some sponges parasitic on Clionidae with further notes on that family. Records of the Indian Museum 11: 457-478 pl. 34 [469].
• Halichondria armata Lindgren, N.G. 1897. Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Spongienfauna des Malaiischen Archipels und der Chinesischen Meere. Zoologischer Anzeiger 20: 480-487 [480].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZIUU unknown wet (fragment BMNH 1929.11.26.31), 54 m, Batan Ils, Philippines, [20°50´N 123°E].
• Halichondria panicea hemisphaerica Dendy, A. 1905. Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. 57-246 pls 1-16 in Herdman, W.A. (ed.). Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. London : Royal Society Vol. 3 Suppl. 18. [146].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH (4 not found - egaz for Mannar, Sri Lanka), off Galle and further north, Gulf of Mannar, Sri Lanka; Periya Paar [8°36'39"N 78°35'27"E, 8°23'31"N 80°11'24"E]; BMNH 1907.2.1.43 wet (RN 47, 4 not mentioned in original description - egaz for Mannar, Sri Lanka), off Galle and further north, Gulf of Mannar, Sri Lanka; Periya Paar [8°36'39"N 78°35'27"E, 8°23'31"N 80°11'24"E].
• Amorphinopsis excavans digitifera Annandale, N. 1915. Some sponges parasitic on Clionidae with further notes on that family. Records of the Indian Museum 11: 457-478 pl. 34 [469].

  Type data:

   Holotype IM 501/7 wet (fragment ZEV - egaz for Tenasserim and Andaman sea), rock pool at Fisher Bay, Tavoy Is. off Tenasserim coast, Burma, Andaman Sea [12°32'09"N 97°37'08"E, 6°43'08"N 96°41'05"E].
• Amorphinopsis kempi Kumar, D.A. 1925. Report on some tetraxonid sponges in the collection of the Indian Museum. Records of the Indian Museum 27: 211-229 [226].

  Type data:

   Holotype IM P199/1 wet (egaz), Waltair, Bay of Bengal, India [19°39'57"N 90°40'08"E].
• Prostylissa siamensis Topsent, 1925.

  Type data:

   Holotype MOM unknown wet (egaz), South China Sea [4°38'02"N 108°50'20"E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• van Soest, R.W.M., Diaz, M.C. & Pomponi, S.A. 1990. Phylogenetic classification of the halichondrids (Porifera, Demospongiae). Beaufortia 40(2): 15-62 [45]
• Wiedenmayer, F. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994] [205] (synonymy of Halichondria papillata Baer, 1906; Halichondria variabilis Lindgren, 1897; Halichondria panicea hemisphaerica Dendy, 1905; Amorphinopsis excavans digitifera Annandale, 1915; Amorphinopsis kempi Kumar, 1925)
• Hooper, J.N.A., Cook, S.D., Hobbs, L.J. & Kennedy, J.A. 1997. Australian Halichondriidae (Porifera: Demospongiae): I. Species from the Beagle Gulf. pp. 1-65 in Hanley, H.R., Caswell, G., Megirian, D. & Larson, H.K. (eds). The Marine Flora and Fauna of Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia. Proceedings of the Sixth International Marine Biology Workshop. Darwin : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 466 pp. [25] (Halichondria papillata Baer, 1906, Halichondria variabilis Lindgren, 1897 and Halichondria dura Lindgren, 1897, removed from synonymy; Halichondria dura Lindgren, 1897 reinstated as valid species, Topsentia dura (Lindgren, 1897))
• Alvarez, B. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2011. Taxonomic revision of the order Halichondrida (Porifera: Demospongiae) of northern Australia. Family Halichondriidae. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 27: 55–84 [57]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Vernon Islands, NT, Torres Strait, Qld. Includes Darwin record of Amorphinopsis sacciformis sensu (Hooper et al. 1997: 27 (not Ciocalypta sacciformis Thiele, 1900). Widespread in coral reefs of the Indo-west Pacific — Gulf of Manaar, Sri Lanka; Bay of Bengal, India; Andaman Sea, Burma; South China Sea, Vietnam; Sulu Sea, Philippines; Gaspar Strait, Java Sea, Banda Sea and Arafura Sea, Indonesia. The species was recorded originally from the Mergui Archipelago (Andaman province). Records from Singapore and northern Australia extend the distribution of the species to the Sunda and Sahul Shelf provinces. The northern Australian and Singaporean populations seem to be common at the intertidal region associated with piers and wharfs. The species is found also subtidally between 9 and 16 m (Alvarez & Hooper 2011).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth intertidal–54 m; gravel substrate.

 

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)