Species Chondrilla nucula Schmidt, 1862

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chondrilla nucula Schmidt, E.O. 1862. Die Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 7 pls. [39].

  Type data:

   Holotype MJG 15108 wet, Kvarner Gulf (as Quarhero), Adriatic Sea, Yugoslavia [no coords available].
  Paratype(s) MJG 15687, 15955 wet (depository uncertain); BMNH 1867.7.26.1 wet; BMNH 1867.7.26.30 dry; BMNH 1867.5.21.336 dry fragment; BMNH 1867.3.11.67 slide.

  Secondary source:

   Desqueyroux-Faundez, R. & Stone, S.M. 1992. O. Schmidt Sponge Catalogue. An illustrated guide to the Graz Museum Collection, with notes on additional material. Geneva : Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle iv+190 pp. 49 pls. [9, 33] (re types).
• Chondrilla embolophora Schmidt, E.O. 1862. Die Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 7 pls. [39].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1867.3.11.21 slide, Zadar Channel, Adriatic Sea, Yugoslavia [44°06'50"N 15°14'27"E].
  Paratype(s) ZMB 6559 (slide).

  Secondary source:

   Desqueyroux-Faundez, R. & Stone, S.M. 1992. O. Schmidt Sponge Catalogue. An illustrated guide to the Graz Museum Collection, with notes on additional material. Geneva : Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle iv+190 pp. 49 pls. [9, 33] (re types).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hechtel, G.J. 1965. A systematic study of the Demospongiae of Port Royal, Jamaica. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 20: i-iv 1-103 8 pls [74]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Champion Bay, Low Isles, Port Phillip Heads, Westernport Bay, also S Atlantic Ocean, amphi-Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, W and E Pacific Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marinesessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 1–736 m.

 

General References

Usher, K.M., Sutton, D.C., Toze, S. Kuo, J. & Fromont, J. 2004. Biogeography and phylogeny of Chondrilla species (Demospongiae) in Australia. Marine Ecology Progress Series 270: 117-127 [117]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
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29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
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