Species Gelliodes fibulatus (Carter, 1881)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Axos fibulata Carter, H.J. 1881. Supplementary report on specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar, together with others from the sea in the vicinity of the Basse Rocks and from Bass's Straits respectively, presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt. H. Cawne Warren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 7: 361-385 pl. 18 [383].

  Type data:

   Holotype (ex LFM, destroyed - egaz), Bass Strait, TAS [39°20'S 145°30'E].

  Secondary source:

   Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [549]; Stone, S.M. 1986. Index to Important Sponge Collections. Autumn 1986. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 47. [25].
• Gelliodes fibulata Ridley, S.O. 1884. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. Alert, 1881–1882. Spongiida. (Part 1, Australian sponges). London : British Museum (Natural History) 366-482, pls 39-43. [427].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1882.2.23.226 wet (egaz), 4–17 m, Prince of Wales Channel and Thursday Is., Torres Strait [10°30'S 142°15'E, 10°25'S 142°10'E]; BMNH 1882.2.23.240 wet (egaz), 4–17 m, Prince of Wales Channel and Thursday Is., Torres Strait [10°30'S 142°15'E, 10°25'S 142°10'E]; BMNH 1882.2.23.202 dry (egaz), 4–17 m, Prince of Wales Channel and Thursday Is., Torres Strait [10°30'S 142°15'E, 10°25'S 142°10'E]; BMNH 1882.2.23.547 wet (egaz), 4–17 m, Prince of Wales Channel and Thursday Is., Torres Strait [10°30'S 142°15'E, 10°25'S 142°10'E]; 1882.2.23.548 wet (egaz), 4–17 m, Prince of Wales Channel and Thursday Is., Torres Strait [10°30'S 142°15'E, 10°25'S 142°10'E]; BMNH 1882.2.23.549 wet (egaz), 4–17 m, Prince of Wales Channel and Thursday Is., Torres Strait [10°30'S 142°15'E, 10°25'S 142°10'E]; BMNH 1882.2.23.193 dry (egaz), 4–17 m, Prince of Wales Channel and Thursday Is., Torres Strait [10°30'S 142°15'E, 10°25'S 142°10'E]; BMNH 1882.2.23.202a–226a–240a 3 slides, 3/62 (egaz), 4–17 m, Prince of Wales Channel and Thursday Is., Torres Strait [10°30'S 142°15'E, 10°25'S 142°10'E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [549]
• Burton, M. 1959. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition 10(5): 151-281 41 figs [226]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Torres Strait and Prince of Wales Channel, Thursday Is., Cape York, also Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, New Guinea and New Caledonia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 5–37 m (220–897 m?).

 

General References

Fromont, J. 1993. Descriptions of species of the Haplosclerida (Porifera: Demospongiae) occurring in the tropical waters of the Great Barrier Reef. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 10: 7-40 [26] (redescription and new records)

Fromont, J. 2003. Porifera (Sponges) in the Dampier Archipelago: Taxonomic affinities and biogeography. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Marine Biological Workshop. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Dampier, Western Australia. 405-417 pp. [408] (Listed in this article)

Hooper, J.N.A. 1986. Revision of the marine sponge genus Axos Gray (Demospongiae: Axinellida) from Northwest Australia. The Beagle. Occasional Papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3(1): 167-189 pl. 1 [184-187, figs 11-12, pl. 1E] (redescribed)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)