Species Clathria (Clathria) transiens Hallmann, 1912

Museums

Regional Maps

• Clathria transiens Hallmann, E.F. 1912. Report on the sponges obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, 1909–10. Part 1. Zoological (and Biological) Results of the Fishing Experiments carried on by F.I.S. Endeavour 1909-1914 2: 117-300 69 figs pls 21-36 [226].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM E 302 wet (NMV photos 26/18,19), off Devonport, TAS [41°10'S 146°21'E].
  Paralectotype(s) AM Z49 wet (NMV photos 28/16; form b); AM E819 wet (NMV photo 26/16); AM E779 2 wet (NMV photos 28/27–29); AM Z743 dry (NMV photos 8/12); AM E779 wet; AM Z744 wet; AM Z744 wet (NMV photos 27/31–33).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Maria Is., Devonport (Tas), Port Phillip Bay (Vic), Kingston, Great Australian Bight (SA); spurious record from the Red Sea (Burton, 1959).

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth up to 60 m; rock substrates.

 

General References

Hooper, J.N.A. 1996. Revision of Microcionidae (Porifera: Poecilosclerida: Demospongiae), with description of Australian species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 40: 1-626 [Date published 01/06/1996] [163]

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., Currie, D.R. & Ward, T.M. 2005. Sponges of the Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Benthic Protection Zone). SARDI Research Report Series Adelaide : SARDI Aquatic Sciences Publication No RD04/0170 Part 65 pp. 1-92. [23]

Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [57]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		02-May-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)