Species Chondrosia reticulata (Carter, 1886)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halisarca reticulata Carter, H.J. 1886. Supplement to the descriptions of Mr. J. Bracebridge Wilson's Australian sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 18: 271-290 [274].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1887.7.11.6 wet, 2 specimens in 5 fragments (NMV photo 37/27, 62, slide 1/76), Port Phillip Heads and Westernport Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E and 38°22'S 145°20'E]; BMNH 1887.7.11.7 wet (NMV photo 39/14), Port Phillip Heads and Westernport Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E and 38°22'S 145°20'E]; BMNH unregistered 11 slides, 1/76 (11 slides, 1/76), Port Phillip Heads and Westernport Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E and 38°22'S 145°20'E].

  Secondary source:

   Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [36].
• Chondrosia spurca Carter, H.J. 1887. Description of Chondrosia spurca, n. sp., from the south coast of Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 19: 286-288 [286].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1886.12.15.128 paralectotypes (NMV photos 34/35,36, =AM G2756 slide), Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1887.7.11.7 wet (NMV photo 39/14); BMNH 1954.3.9.19 slide (also BMNH unregistered 11 slides 1/76 prepared from type series); BMNH 1886.12.15.128 2 specimens, wet (NMV photos 34/35,36, =AM G2756 slide), Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
• Chondrosia collectrix Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [74] [junior secondary homonym of Chondrosia collectrix (Schmidt, 1870)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM G9061 wet (NMV photos 11/32–34), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1886.6.7.100 wet, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; ZMB 1134, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1925.11.1.1098 (slide ex AM 1/74), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].

  Secondary source:

   Wiedenmayer, F. 1977. Shallow-water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel : Birkhäuser (Experientia Suppl. 28) 287 pp. 43 pls. [189].
• Reniera collectrix Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [78].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM G9014 (2 wet specimens, NMV photos 11/13–17), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH (specimen not found, =AM G3332 slide), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; ZMB 1152 3 slides, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH unregistered slide 1/74 (ex AM (G9014?), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1954.2.12.101 (slide 1/75 prepared from type series), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM Z2010 wet (not found), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
• Chondrosia chucalla Laubenfels, M.W. de 1936. A discussion of the sponge fauna of the Dry Tortugas in particular, and the West Indies in general, with material for a revision of the families and orders of the Porifera. (Tortugas Lab. Paper No. 467). Publication of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Washington 30: 1-225 22 pls 1 map [184] [nom. nov. for Chondrosia collectrix Lendenfeld, 1888 which is a junior secondary homonym of Chondrosia collectrix (Schmidt, 1870)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Topsent, E. 1896. Etude monographique des Spongiaires de France. II. Carnosa. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 3 3: 493-590 pls 21-23 [513]
• Hallmann, E.F. 1914. A revision of the monaxonid species described as new in Lendenfeld's 'Catalogue of the sponges in the Australian Museum'. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39(Part 1): 263–315 1 fig. pls 15–24 [307]
• Wiedenmayer, F. 1977. Shallow-water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel : Birkhäuser (Experientia Suppl. 28) 287 pp. 43 pls. [188]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Port Jackson, Port Phillip Heads, also W(?) and central Pacific Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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.

 

General References

Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [36]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018	PORIFERA Grant, 1836	20-Jul-2017	MODIFIED	Dr Kathryn Hall
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)