Species Astrosclera willeyana Lister, 1900

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• Astrosclera willeyana Lister, J.J. 1900. Astrosclera willeyana, the type of a new family of sponges. Willey's Zoological Results 4: 459-482 pls 45-48 [459] [redescribed by Ayling, A.L. 1982. A redescription of Astrosclera willeyana Lister, 1900 (Ceratoporellida, Demospongiae), a new record from the Great Barrier Reef. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 43: 99–103 (100)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH unknown (egaz), Sandal Bay, Lifu, Loyalty Ils and Funafuti [8°23'49"S 179°04'40"E].

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Cryptic reefal habitats, depth 6–53 m.

General References

Ayling, A.L. 1982. A redescription of Astrosclera willeyana Lister, 1900 (Ceratoporellida, Demospongiae), a new record from the Great Barrier Reef. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 43: 99-103 [100] (new Australian record)

Böhm, F., Joachimski, M.M., Dullo, W.-C., Eisenhauer, A., Lehnert, H., Reitner, J. & Wörheide, G. 2000. Oxygen isotope fractionation in marine aragonite of coralline sponges. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 64: 1695-1703 [1695]

Erpenbeck, D., List-Armitage, S., Alvarez, B., Degnan, B.M., Wörheide, G. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2007. The systematics of Raspailiidae (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida: Microcionina) re-analysed with a ribosomal marker. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 87: 1571–1576 [1573]

Fallon, S.J., McCulloch, M.T. & Hooper, J.N.A. 1999. Trace element and stable isotope profiles from the coralline sponge (Astrosclera willeyana). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 1174-174 [174] (Listed in this article)

Holmes, B. & Blanch, H. 2007. Genus-specific associations of marine sponges with group I crenarchaeotes. Marine Biology 150: 759-772

Hooper, J.N.A., Kennedy, J.A., List-Armitage, S.E., Cook, S.D. & Quinn, R. 1999. Biodiversity, species composition and distribution of marine sponges in Northeast Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 263-274 [264] (Listed in this article)

Jahn, T., Koenig, G.M., Wright, A.D., Woerheide, G. & Reitner, J. 1997. Manzacidin D — an unprecedented secondary metabolite from the living fossil sponge Astrosclera willeyana. Tetrahedron Letters 38: 3883-3884 [3883]

Thiel, V., Blumenberg, M., Hefter, J., Pape, T., Pomponi, S.A., Reed, J., Reitner, J., Wörheide, G. & Michaelis, W. 2002. A chemical view on the most ancestral metazoa - biomarker chemotaxonomy of hexactinellid sponges. Naturwissenschaften 89: 60-66 [61]

Van Oppen, M.J.H., Wörheide, G. & Takabayashi, M. 2002. Nuclear markers in evolutionary and population genetic studies of scleractinian corals and sponges. Proceedings of the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali 1: 131-138 [134]

Wörheide, G. & Reitner, J. 1999. Biocalcification in the Indo-Pacific coralline demosponge Astrosclera willeyana Lister — the role of basopinacoderm. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 666-666 [666] (Listed in this article)

Wörheide, G. & Reitner, J. 1999. Biogeography and taxonomy of the reef cave dwelling coralline demosponge Astrosclera willeyana throughout the Indo-Pacific. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 666 [650]

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