Species Clathria (Dendrocia) pyramida Lendenfeld, 1888
- Clathria pyramida Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [222].
Type data:
Lectotype AM G9047 wet (NMV photos 21/30–33 - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1887.1.24.62 wet (=AM G3579 slide). - Clathria alata Dendy, A. 1896. Catalogue of non-calcareous sponges collected by J. Bracebridge Wilson, Esq., M.A., in the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads. Part 2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 8: 14-51 [34].
Type data:
Lectotype NMV G2280 wet (=BMNH 1902.10.18.330 slide), inside Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
Paralectotype(s) NMV G2281 wet (=AM slide G2686); NMV G2282 wet (=BMNH 1902.10.18.31 slide); NMV G2283 wet (=BMNH 1902.10.18.49 slide); NMV G2284 wet (=BMNH 1902.10.18.332 slide); NMV G2285 wet (=BMNH 1902.10.18.333 slide).Type locality references:
Wilson, J. Bracebridge 1895. List of dredging stations at and near Port Phillip Heads. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 7: 261-263 (stations 1, 5, 10).
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] [264]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Port Jackson, Maria Is., Sorrento Jetty and Oyster Harbour; also Spencer Gulf SA
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), 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)
Ecological Descriptors
Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.
Extra Ecological Information
Depth 0–25 m; on sand, rock reef or muddy substrates, associated with oysters and algal beds, Spongylus, Pinna and Chalamus bivalves, rock or wood jetty substrates.
General References
Capon, R.J. & MacLeod, J.K. 1987. 5-thio-D-mannose from the marine sponge Clathria pyramida (Lendenfeld). The first example of a naturally occurring 5-thiosugar. Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications 1987: 1200-1201 [1200]
Chernoff, H. 1987. Factors affecting mortality of the scallop Chlamys asperrima (Lamarck) and its epizooic sponges in South Australian waters. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 109(2): 155-172 [160]
Davis, A.R. & Ward, D.W. 1999. Does the large barnacle Austrobalanus imperator (Darwin, 1854) structure benthic invertebrate communities in SE Australia? Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 125-130 [127] (Mentioned in this article)
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] [242]
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]
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]
History of changes
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| 29-Mar-2018 | 15-Dec-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 29-Mar-2018 | 02-May-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |