Species Antho (Acarnia) frondifera (Lamarck, 1814)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spongia frondifera Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de Monet 1814. Sur les polypiers empâtés. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 20: 294-312, 370-386, 432-458 [445].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHN Paris LBIM DT565 dry, unknown, possibly SW. Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) MNHN Paris LBIM DT3356 dry.
• Hymeniacidon cliftoni Bowerbank, J.S. 1863. On the anatomy and physiology of the Spongiadae. Part II. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 152: 747-829 pls 27-35 [773].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1877.5.21.608 dry (NMV photo 48/10–11), precise locality unknown, SW. Australia [--].
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1877.5.21.1185 slide; BMNH 1877.5.21.218 slide (used in Bowerbank, J.S. 1864. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. London : Ray Society Vol. 1 290 pp. 37 pls. fig. 33).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [257]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth range unknown.

General References

Hooper, J.N.A. 1996. Revision of Microcionidae (Porifera: Poecilosclerida: Demospongiae), with description of Australian species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 40: 1-626 [Date published 01/06/1996] [422]

Scott, F.J., Wetherbee, R. & Kroft, G.T. 1984. The morphology and development of some prominently stalked southern Australian Halymeniaceae (Cryptonemiales, Rhodophyta). 2. The sponge-associated genera Thamoclonium Kuetzing and Codiophyllum Gray. Journal of Phycology 20(2): 286-295 [293]

Topsent, E. 1929. Phénomènes de styloprothèse chez les Poecilosclérines. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 68(Notes rev.): 19-32 14 figs [26]

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