Species Asteropus radiocrusta Carter, 1886

Museums

Regional Maps

• Asteropus radiocrusta Carter, H.J. 1886. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 18: 126-149 [126].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1886.12.15.146 preserved ('originally one of 3 syntypes of Stellettinopsis tuberculata Carter, 1886)'), Port Phillip Heads, Victoria [38°07'S 144°48'E].

  Secondary source:

   Kennedy, J.A. 2000. Resolving the 'Jaspis stellifer' complex. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45(2): 453-476 [462].
• Stellettinopsis tuberculata Carter, H.J. 1886. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 18: 126-149 [126].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.4.34 dry (NMV photos 39/24, 25) (=AM G2950 slide), 5m Port Phillip Heads, VIC; BMNH 1886.12.15.113 wet (NMV photos 38/23, 24) (=AM G2736 slide); BMNH 1886.12.15.146 wet (NMV photos 37/13, 14).

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

Aquatic, coral reef, filter-feeder.

General References

Kennedy, J.A. 2000. Resolving the 'Jaspis stellifer' complex. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45(2): 453-476 [462]

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