Species Amphimedon viridis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amphimedon viridis Duchassaing, F.P. de & Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Bataafsche Hollandsche Maatschappye der Wetenschappen te Haarlem 2 21: 1-124 pls 1-25 [81].

  Type data:

   Holotype MZUT Por. 40 dry, 3 fragments (egaz), St Thomas, US Virgin Ils [18°04'15"N 64°49'22"W].
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1928.11.12.36 dry fragment of type; USNM 31004 dry fragment of type; MNHN D.NBE.1060 dry fragment of type.
• Chalina viridis Dendy, A. 1895. Catalogue of non-calcareous sponges collected by J. Bracebridge Wilson, Esq., M.A., in the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads. Part 1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 7: 232-260 [244].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NMV G2472 wet (=BMNH 1902.10.18.103 slide - egaz), 34 m, inside and 36 m, outside Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1902.10.18.12 slide (egaz), 34 m, inside and 36 m, outside Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH unregistered 3 slides 3/97 (egaz), 34 m, inside and 36 m, outside Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].

  Type locality references:

  Wilson, J. Bracebridge 1895. List of dredging stations at and near Port Phillip Heads. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 7: 261-263 [station XB].
• Ceraochalina differentiata Dendy, A. 1922. Report on the Sigmatotetraxonida collected by H.M.S. Sealark in the Indian Ocean. In Report of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905. Vol. 7. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 18: 1-164 pls 1-18 [43].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1921.11.7.36 wet (egaz), 21–33 m, Amirante Ils, Indian Ocean [6°55'37"S 52°06'03"E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [317] (partly after Burton, M. 1937. The littoral fauna of Krusadai Island in the Gulf of Manaar. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum. (n.s.) Natural History Section 1: 1–58 pls 1–9 [18])

 

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Port Phillip Heads, also West Indian region, Indian Ocean, W Pacific Ocean and Japan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

General References

Hooper, J.N.A. 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] (questions conspecificity of Caribbean and S Australian populations)

 

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)