Species Callyspongia (Callyspongia) paucispina (Lendenfeld, 1887)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chalinopora paucispina Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [765].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1886.8.27.413 dry (NMV photos 42/13, 14, =AM G3406 slide), Queenscliff, VIC [38°16'S 144°39'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.413a unregistered, 2 slides 3/51; BMNH 1886.8.27.468A dry (as Dactylochalina paucispina, NMV photos 45/3–4 - egaz), Port Jackson [33°51'S 151°15'E].
• Chalinopora typica Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [765] [collective name for varieties tenuispina and megarhaphis, no nominate subspecies].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1886.8.27.410 wet (=AM G3407 slide, var. megarhaphis ), Port Jackson, East Coast (var. tenuispina); Port Jackson, NSW (var. megarhaphis); [Port Phillip, VIC (no var.); Kangaroo Is., SA (var. megarhaphis)] [33°51'S 151°15'E, 38°07'S 144°48'E, 35°50'S 137°06'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.411 dry (=AM G3408 slide, no var., NMV photos 43/20,21 - egaz), Port Phillip [38°07'S 144°48'E]; ZMB 2277 6 slides (var. megarhaphis - egaz), Kangaroo Is. [35°50'S 137°06'E]; BMNH 1954.2.10.120 slide 3/55 (var. megarhaphis - egaz), Kangaroo Is. [35°50'S 137°06'E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wiedenmayer, F. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994] [95]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

SE coast, S coast, Bass Strait, NSW, VIC, SA; Port Jackson, Port Phillip Bay and Kangaroo Is.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

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)