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Species Clathria (Thalysias) major Hentschel, 1912

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Darwin, Cobourg Pen., NW Shelf, also Aru Is., Indonesia.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth range 2–82 m; rock reefs and dead coral.

 

General References

Fromont, J. 2003. Porifera (Sponges) in the Dampier Archipelago: Taxonomic affinities and biogeography. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Marine Biological Workshop. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Dampier, Western Australia. 405-417 pp. [409] (Listed in this article)

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] [353]

Hooper, J.N.A., Capon, R.J., Keenan, C.P., Parry, D.L. & Smit, N. 1992. Chemotaxonomy of marine sponges: families Microcionidae, Raspailiidae and Axinellidae, and their relationships with other families in the orders Poecilosclerida and Axinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6(2): 261-301 [263]

Hooper, J.N.A., Capon, R.J., Keenan, C.P. & Parry, D.L. 1990. Biochemical and morphometric differentation of two sympatric sibling species of Clathria (Porifera: Demospongiae) from northern Australia. Invertebrate Taxonomy 4(1): 123-148 [133]

Hooper, J.N.A., Capon, R.J., Keenan, C.P. & Parry, D.L. 1991. Morphometric and biochemical differences between sympatric populations of Clathria 'spicata' species complex (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida: Microcionidae) from northern Australia. pp. 271–288 in Reitner, J. & Keupp, H. (eds). Fossil and Recent Sponges. Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag xviii 595 pp. [272]

Santalova, E.A., Makarieva, T.N., Gorshkova, I.A., Dmitrenok, A.S., Krasokhin, V.B. & Stonik, V.A. 2004. Sterols from six marine sponges. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 32: 153-167 [153]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018 15-Dec-2011 MOVED
29-Mar-2018 13-Apr-2011 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)