Species Chondropsis arenifera Carter, 1886

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• Chondropsis arenifera Carter, H.J. 1886. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 17: 40-53, 112-127 [45].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1886.12.15.149 wet (NMV photos 37/2,3, =AM G2755 slide), Port Phillip Heads, VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.150 wet, Port Phillip Heads, VIC; BMNH 1886.12.15.54 wet (NMV photos 38/21,22), Port Phillip Heads, VIC.

  Subsequent designation references:

  van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Chondropsidae Carter, 1886. pp. 521-527 in Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera: A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 1. [522].

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

General References

Sorokin, S., Fromont, J. & Currie, D. 2007. Demosponge biodiversity in the Benthic Protection Zone of the Great Australian Bight. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 132(2): 192-204 [195]

Sorokin, S.J., Laperousaz, T.C.D. & Collings, G.J. 2008. Investigator Group Expedition 2006: Sponges (Porifera). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 132(2): 163-172 [167]

van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Chondropsidae Carter, 1886. pp. 521-527 in Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera: A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 1. [523] ((rejects Wiedenmayer's 1989 synonymy of Chondropis arenifera and Phoriospongia argentea))

Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [71]

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