Species Ascandra loculosa (Haeckel, 1872)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ascetta loculosa Haeckel, E. 1872. Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. Berlin : Georg Reimer Vol. 1 pp. 1-396; Vol. 2 pp. 1-418; Vol. 3, pls 1-30. [part translated in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4)11: 241–262, 421–430] [17].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (PJM?, not found), 'Southern Australia'.
• Leucosolenia wilsoni Dendy, A. 1891. A monograph of the Victorian sponges. Part 1. The organisation and classification of the Calcarea Homocoela, with descriptions of the Victorian species. Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria 3: 1-81 pls 1-11 [63].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NMV G2488 specimen 1 (one half with 6 slides NMV G2482–2487), inside Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1891.9.19.12 specimen 1, one half with one slide, inside Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1925.11.1670 specimen 2, slide, inside Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].

  Secondary source:

   Ayling, A.L., Stone, S. & Smith, B.J. 1982. Catalogue of types of sponge species from Southern Australia described by Arthur Dendy. Reports of the National Museum of Victoria 1: 97-109 [107].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burton, M. 1963. A Revision of the Classification of the Calcareous Sponges. London : British Museum pp. 1-693 figs 1-375. [221]

Distribution

States

Victoria

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.

History of changes