Species Axinella tricalyciformis Bergquist, 1970

Museums

Regional Maps

• Axinella tricalyciformis Bergquist, P.R. 1970. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 2 (Axinellida and Halichondrida). (Mem. N.Z. Oceanogr. Inst. 51). Bulletin of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 197: 1-85 20 pls 3 figs [15] [replacement name; nom. nov. for Axinella lamellata Bergquist, 1961].

  Type data:

   Holotype CMNZ 3/63, Petre Bay, Chatham Island, New Zealand.
• Axinella lamellata Bergquist, P.R. 1961. Demospongiae (Porifera) of the Chatham Islands and Chatham Rise, collected by the Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition. Bulletin of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 139: 169-206 20 figs [188] [invalid name; preoccupied following placement of Spongsorites lamellata Dendy 1905 in Axinella, see Burton 1959.].

  Type data:

   Holotype CMNZ 3/63, Petre Bay, Chatham Island, New Zealand.

 

Generic Combinations

• Axinella tricalyciformis (Bergquist, 1970). —
  Hooper, J.N.A. & Bergquist, P.R. 1992. Cymbastela, a new genus of lamellate coral reef sponges. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 32(1): 99-137

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Stockyard Point, and also New Zealand.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Bass Strait Shelf Province (35)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 6–90 m.

 

General References

Burton, M. 1959. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition 10(5): 151-281 41 figs

Carpay, M. 1986. The marine sponges of Tasmania. A checklist of a number of marine sponges, occurring along the Tasmanian coast. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis, Department of Bijzondere Dierkunde, Institute of Taxonomic Zoology, Amsterdam. pp. 1–77. [18]

Dendy, A. 1905. Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. 57-246 pls 1-16 in Herdman, W.A. (ed.). Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. London : Royal Society Vol. 3 Suppl. 18.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
30-Sep-2025	DEMOSPONGIAE Sollas, 1885	01-Sep-2025	MODIFIED
03-Mar-2022	DEMOSPONGIAE Sollas, 1885	22-Apr-2022	MODIFIED
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)