Species Clathrina procumbens (Lendenfeld, 1885)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ascetta procumbens Lendenfeld, R. von 1885. A monograph of the Australian sponges. Part 3. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 1083-1150 pls 59-67 [1086].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1886.6.7.1 wet, Port Jackson, NSW; Port Phillip Bay, VIC [33°51'S 151°15'E].
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1886.6.7.2 wet; BMNH 1886.6.7.3 wet; BMNH 1886.6.7.4 (slide of BMNH 1886.6.7.1–3); BMNH 1886.6.7.5 (slide of BMNH 1886.6.7.1–3); AM G3592 slide (ex BMNH); AM G9080 2 wet specimens (NMV photos 23/9–12).
• Leucosolenia psammophila Row, R.W.H. & Hôzawa, S. 1931. Report on the Calcarea obtained by the Hamburg South-West Australian Expedition of 1905. Science Reports of the Tôhoku University 4 6: 727-809 17 figs pls 19-21 [736].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Fremantle district, WA [32°03'S 115°46'E].

  Secondary source:

   Burton, M. 1963. A Revision of the Classification of the Calcareous Sponges. London : British Museum pp. 1-693 figs 1-375. [590].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wiedenmayer, F. 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] [485]

Generic Combinations

• Clathrina procumbens (Lendenfeld, 1885).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth subtidal–8 m.

General References

Burton, M. 1963. A Revision of the Classification of the Calcareous Sponges. London : British Museum pp. 1-693 figs 1-375. [225]

History of changes