Species Clathria (Wilsonella) australiensis Carter, 1885
- Wilsonella australiensis Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 15: 301-321 [320].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1886.12.15.43 wet (NMV photo 35/18, 19, =AM G2805 slide), Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.284 dry (figured in Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. (pl. 40 fig. 7) as Sigmatella corticata var. elegans, NMV photo 48/7,8). - Clathriopsamma lobosa Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [149].
Type data:
Lectotype AM G9053 wet (NMV photos 17/29–31), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1887.4.27.106 dry (=AM 3583 slide). - Thorecta ramsayi Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [149].
Type data:
Holotype AM G8820 dry (NMV photo 7/3,4 - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
Paratype(s) AM not found. - Sigmatella corticata elegans Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [199] [fully described in Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls.; paralectotype of
Wilsonella australiensis Carter, 1885].Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1886.12.15.284 dry (NMV photo 48/7,8 - egaz), Fremantle, WA [32°03'S 115°46'E]. - Clathria australiensis spinulata 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). [374].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMH (not found - egaz), Geographe Bay, WA; Middleton Beach, Albany, WA [33°35'S 115°15'E, 35°02'S 117°53'E]; ZMB 4446 wet, fragment of type (egaz - Geo. Bay and Albany), Geographe Bay, WA; Middleton Beach, Albany, WA [33°35'S 115°15'E, 35°02'S 117°53'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] [275]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Port Jackson, Tuggerah Beach, Botany Bay, Port Stephens, Port Phillip Heads, Spencer Gulf
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.
Extra Ecological Information
Depth 11–160 m; rock, sand and algal bed substrates.
General References
Fromont, J. 1999. Demosponges of the Houtman Abrolhos. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 175-184 [180] (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] [183]
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]
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 [84]
History of changes
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