Species Clathria (Thalysias) cactiformis (Lamarck, 1814)

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Species Clathria (Thalysias) cactiformis (Lamarck, 1814)

Spongia appendiculata Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de Monet 1814. Sur les polypiers empâtés. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 20: 294-312, 370-386, 432-458 [383] [not Spongia appendiculata var. b =Isodictya palmata (Johnston)].
Type data:
Holotype MNHN Paris LBIM DT526 dry (egaz), King George Sound (Albany), WA [35°03'S 118°00'E].
Paratype(s) MNHN Paris LBIM DT3394; MNHN Paris LBIM DT unregistered.
Type locality references:
Topsent, E. 1933. Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Fin. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 6 10: 1-60 5 figs pls 1-3 [22].
Spongia cactiformis Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de Monet 1814. Sur les polypiers empâtés. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 20: 294-312, 370-386, 432-458 [440].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHN Paris LBIM DT580 dry, South Seas (Australia).
Paralectotype(s) MNHN Paris LBIM DT3360 dry; BMNH 1954.2.20.38 fragment of type, slide.
Echinonema typicum Carter, H.J. 1881. Supplementary report on specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar, together with others from the sea in the vicinity of the Basse Rocks and from Bass's Straits respectively, presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt. H. Cawne Warren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 7: 361-385 pl. 18 [378] [type series composite; some syntypes labelled by Ridley, status uncertain; junior homonym of Echinonema typicum Carter, 1878].
Type data:

Syntype(s) BMNH 1872.5.21.147 wet (egaz - Fremantle), SE and SW Coasts (Fremantle, Swan River District, WA; Wollongong, NSW) [32°03'S 115°46'E]; BMNH 1877.5.21.149 wet (egaz), Fremantle [32°03'S 115°46'E]; BMNH 1877.5.21.1820–1821 wet (NMV photo 47/21 1822–1823); BMNH 1877.5.21.1818 wet (NMV photo 47/22); BMNH 1877.5.21.1861 wet; ZMB 3031-3 slides.
Echinonema anchoratum Carter, H.J. 1881. Supplementary report on specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar, together with others from the sea in the vicinity of the Basse Rocks and from Bass's Straits respectively, presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt. H. Cawne Warren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 7: 361-385 pl. 18 [379] [type material not part of now destroyed Cawne Warren Collection, as stated in original description].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1886.12.15.423 wet (egaz), Port Phillip, Vic [38°07'S 144°48'E].
Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1871.6.5.1, 2 dry (egaz), Port Elizabeth [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1954.3.9.138 slide (egaz), Falkland Ils [50°55'19"S 61°17'59"W]; BMNH 1954.3.9.139 slide, SW Australia; BMNH 1954.3.9.140 slide (egaz), Adelaide [34°56'S 138°36'E]; BMNH 1886.12.15.423 dry (egaz), Port Phillip, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1871.5.12.1, 3 wet (egaz), Port Elizabeth [33°55'58"S 25°34'11"E]; BMNH 1871.6.5.1,2 wet (egaz), Port Elizabeth [33°55'58"S 25°34'11"E].
Echinonema flabelliformis Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 16: 347-368 [352].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1886.12.15.452 dry (NMV photo 47/2, =AM G2914 slide - egaz), 34 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
Echinonema pectiniformis Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 16: 347-368 [353].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1886.12.15.141 wet (NMV photo 34/31,32, =AM G2777 slide - egaz), 40 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
Phakellia ventilabrum australiensis Carter, H.J. 1886. Supplement to the descriptions of Mr. J. Bracebridge Wilson's Australian sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 18: 369-379 [379].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1886.12.15.422 dry (NMV photo 49/6, =AM G2904 slide - egaz), Westernport Bay, VIC [38°22'S 145°20'E].
Echinonema anchoratum dura Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [220].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH unregistered dry (Cabinet D.Si.124), 'east coast'.
Thalassodendron typica Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [223] [holotype in Whitelegge, T. 1901. Report on sponges from the coastal beaches of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 4: 55–118 pls 10–15 (86) rejected in 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. Zool. Results Fish. Exp. Endeavour 2: 117–300 69 figs pls 21–36 (203, 242, 299), Hallmann, E.F. 1914. A revision of the monaxonid species described as new in Lendenfeld's ‘Catalogue of the sponges in the Australian Museum’. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 263–315 1 fig. pls 15–24 (267) and Hallmann, E.F. 1914. A revision of the monaxonid species described as new in Lendenfeld's ‘Catalogue of the sponges in the Australian Museum’. Part 3. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 398–446 23 figs (412), where original description is said to be that of Echinonema typica Carter, 1881].
Type data:
Status unknown, (not found in AM, BMNH or ZMB), East Coast.
Thalassodendron brevispina Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [225].
Type data:
Lectotype AM Z931 dry (NMV photo 9/9 - egaz), East coast (Port Jackson) [33°51'S 151°15'E].
Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1887.4.27.114 dry (NMV photo 47/23, =AM G3588 slide).
Clathria acanthodes Hentschel, E. 1911. Tetraxonida. pp. 279-393, 54 figs 2. Teil. in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 3 (10). [367] [assigned to Rhaphidophlus in 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. Zool. Results Fish. Exp. Endeavour 2: 117–300 69 figs pls 21–36 (177), to Tenacia in Hallmann, E.F. 1920. New genera of monaxonid sponges related to the genus Clathria. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 44: 767–792 3 figs pls 36–40 (771)].
Type data:
Holotype ZMH unknown (ZMB 4443 fragment - egaz - Surf point), 0.5–3.5 m, Surf Point, Outer Bar exit of South Passage, Shark Bay, WA [26°06'S 113°10'E].
Rhaphidophlus typicus geminus 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 [185].
Type data:
Holotype AM Z928 dry (NMV photo 8/14,15 - egaz), WA [25°00'S 122°00'E].
Rhaphidophlus typicus [proximus] 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 [185] [secondary junior homonym of Thalysias proxima Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864].
Type data:
Lectotype AM Z930 dry (NMV photo 9/7,8), Henley Beach, Gulf St Vincent, SA [34°55'S 138°30'E].
Paralectotype(s) AM Z929 dry (NMV photo 9/7,8).
Rhaphidophlus typicus obesus 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 [186] [replacement name for Clathria typica (Carter), see Whitelegge, T. 1901. Report on sponges from the coastal beaches of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 4: 55–118 pls 10–15].
Type data:
Holotype AM Z936 dry (egaz), Tuggerah Beach, NSW [33°19'S 151°31'E].
Paratype(s) AM AM Z935 dry, 8 specimens, 5 not found (NMV photo 9/2,3); AM Z937 dry; AM Z938 dry (NMV photo 9/4); AM Z939 dry (not found); AM Z940 dry (not found).
Rhaphidophlus typicus stellifer 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 [186].
Type data:
Holotype AM E648 dry (NMV photo 8/16,17 - egaz), E Coast of Flinders Is., Bass Strait [40°00'S 148°00'E].
Clathria indurata 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 [299] [for Echinonema anchoratum var. dura Lendenfeld: Whitelegge 1901 supposedly mislabelled syntypes of Lendenfeld; not revised since 1912].
Type data:
Lectotype AM G9113 dry (NMV photos 4/19,20), Western Australia [25°00'S 122°00'E].
Paralectotype(s) AM unregistered dry (NMV photo 4/18).
Clathria favosa Whitelegge, T. 1907. Sponges. Part I (Addenda). Part 2. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4: 487-515 pls 45-46 [498].
Type data:
Holotype AM Z944 dry (NMV photo 8/13 - egaz), 98 m, off Coogee, NSW [31°32'S 142°10'E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Hooper, J.N.A. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994] [268]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Port Jackson, Coogee, Tuggerah Beach, Seven Mile Beach, Flinders Is., Port Phillip, Middleton Beach, Oyster Beach, Maria Is., Gulf St Vincent, Northwest Shelf, Shark Bay, Houtman-Abrolhos, Geographe Bay, Westernport Bay, Byron Bay.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)