Species Chondropsis kirki (Bowerbank, 1841)

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• Dysidea kirki Bowerbank, J.S. 1841. Description of three species of sponge, containing some new forms of organization. The Microscopical Journal, London 1: 161-162 [also published in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 8(1842): 393–394] [161].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1877.5.21.1863 dry (TAS), Wollongong, NSW (Fremantle, Perth, WA; TAS); BMNH 1877.5.21.1864 dry (NMV photo 46/25), Fremantle, WA,; BMNH 1872.5.21.50 dry (NMV photos 46/23,24), Swan River, WA; BMNH 1954.3.9.66 (slide), SW Aust.; BMNH 1954.3.9.68 (slide), SW Aust.
• Dysidea favosa Marshall, W. 1880. Untersuchungen über Dysideiden und Phoriospongien. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 35: 88-129 pls 6-8 [98].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) PMJ Porif.125 wet (NMV photos 56/46–53), Bass Strait; ZMB 2630 9 slides, Bass Strait; ZMB fragment of type ex PMJ in NMV, Bass Strait.
• Sigmatella corticata Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [199] [collective name, not nominate subspecies; syntype without published subspecies name].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1886.12.13.25 wet (as Dysidia corticata var. massa ms), NSW.
• Sigmatella corticata mammillaris Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [199].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.321 dry (Port Phillip Heads, (figured in Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. pl. 40 fig. 5, NMV photo 46/18), Port Phillip Heads; BMNH 1886.12.15.330 dry, Port Phillip Heads; BMNH unregistered 2 specimens, dry (NMV photo 46/20), Encounter Bay, SA (as Murray River).
• Sigmatella corticata papillosa Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [201] [type series composite; partly as Dysideissa granulosa ms and Dysidea corticata var. griffithsi ms, and including 'hypotypes' of Dysidea kirki (in Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 15: 196–222) and Dysidea favosa (in 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) pp. 366–482, pls 39–43.)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM Z531 wet (NMV photos 12/14,15), Gulf St Vincent, SA; Tasmania; Port Phillip Bay and Westernport Bay, VIC; Port Jackson, NSW; Darwin, NT; AM Z535 wet (NMV photos 12/2,3); AM Z648 wet (NMV photos 12/33,34); AM Z650 wet (NMV photo 11/35); AM Z655 dry (NMV photos 2/20,21); AM Z661 2 specimens, wet and dry (NMV photos 2/18,19; 12/17); BMNH 1886.8.27.282 wet (=AM G3685 slide), Port Jackson; BMNH 1886.8.27.229 dry (=AM G2826 slide, NMV photos 46/13,14), Westernportkson; BMNH 1886.12.15.332 dry (fragment of type in AM), South Coast; BMNH 1886.12.15.508 dry (NMV photo 46/15), South Coast; BMNH 1882.2.23.294 dry (dry (Dysidea favosa)); BMNH 1882.2.23.295 dry; BMNH 1882.2.23.295 dry.
• Sigmatella corticata flabellum Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [203].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM G9006 dry (Port Jackson, NMV photos 1/18,19), Port Phillip Heads and Bay, VIC; Port Jackson, NSW; AM Z660a,b 2 specimens, wet (NMV photos 12/8–11, 13/2–8), Port Jackson; AM G9018 wet (not found); BMNH 1886.8.27.233 wet (Port Jackson, =BMNH 1886.8.27.234 slide); BMNH 1886.8.27.231 dry (Port Phillip, =AM G3678 2 slides, NMV photos 46/8,9)); BMNH 1886.12.15.319,320–325,327 (NMV photos 46/21–22), 333 (=AM G2821 slide), 345, all dry (S. Coast, =Dysidea kirki: Carter); BMNH 1886.12.15.322 dry (figured in Lendenfeld, R. von 1886. Studies on sponges. Part 1. The vestibule of Dendrilla cavernosa, nova species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 557–561 pl. 39 pl. 40 fig. 8, NMV photos 46/10,11).

  Type locality references:

  Lendenfeld, R. von 1886. Studies on sponges. Part 1. The vestibule of Dendrilla cavernosa, nova species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 557-561 pl. 39.
• Sigmatella corticata serrata Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [203].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1886.8.27.235 wet (as Dysidea, NMV photos 35/34,35), Port Phillip Bay, VIC; Port Jackson, NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dendy, A. 1916. Report on the non-calcareous sponges collected by Mr. James Hornell at Okhamandal in Kattiawar in 1905–6. 93-146, pls 1-4 in Hornell, J. (ed.). Report to the Government of Baroda on the marine zoology of Okhamandal in Kattiawar. London : Williams & Norgate Vol. 2. [127 part]
• Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [73]

 

Generic Combinations

• Phoriospongia kirki (Bowerbank, 1841).
• Chondropsis kirki (Bowerbank, 1841).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Wollongong, Tuggerah Beach, Narrabine, Port Jackson, Maroubra Bay, Port Phillip Bay, Phillip Is., Sorrento Jetty, Western Port Bay, D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Blackmans Bay, Maria Is., Pilot's Bay, Safety Cove, Gulf St Vincent, Darwin, 'South Coast', 'Australia' also Indian Ocean and New Zealand.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Interidal waters–99 m.

 

General References

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. [28]

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]

 

History of changes

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