Species Cliona carpenteri Hancock, 1867

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• Cliona carpenteri Hancock, A. 1867. Note on the excavating sponges, with descriptions of four new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 19: 229-242 pls 7-8 [241].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 4.15.11,12 2 slides of type (coords for Mexico city), Mazatlan, W coast of Mexico [19°25'37"N 99°07'40"W].

  Secondary source:

   Rützler, K. & Stone, S.M. 1986. Discovery and significance of Albany Hancock's microscope preparations of excavating sponges (Porifera: Hadromerida: Clionidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 99(4): 658-675 [661].
• Cliona bacillifera Carter, H.J. 1887. Report on the marine sponges, chiefly from King Island in the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr John Anderson. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology Zool. 21: 61-84 pls 5-7 [76].

  Type data:

   Holotype IM unknown dry, Kadan Kyun (as King Is.), Mergui Archipelago, Burma [12°37'33"N 98°25'11"E, 12°13'30"N 97°04'04"E, 20°34'36"N 96°37'15"E].

  Secondary source:

   Annandale, N. 1915. Indian boring sponges of the family Clionidae. Records of the Indian Museum 11: 1-24 pl. 1 [8].
• Cliona carpenteri gracilis Hentschel, E. 1909. Tetraxonida. 347-402 pls 22-23 1. Teil. in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 2 (21). [387].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH unknown wet, 3 m, NW of Denham, Shark Bay, WA [25°30'S 113°30'E].
  Paratype(s) ZMB 4496 slide.
• Cliona rhabdophora Hentschel, E. 1914. Monaxone Kieselschwämme und Hornschwämme der Deutschen Südpolar-Expedition 1901–1903. In Drygalski, E. von (ed.) Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901–1903. 15(Zool. 7):. 35-141 pls 4-8 [46].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB unknown wet, Cape Verde Ils, Eastern Atlantic [15°01'46"N 23°35'58"W].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Topsent, E. 1891. Deuxième contribution à l'étude des Clionides. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 2 9: 555-592 pl. 22 [567]
• Annandale, N. 1915. Indian boring sponges of the family Clionidae. Records of the Indian Museum 11: 1-24 pl. 1 [8]
• Topsent, E. 1932. Note sur les Clionides. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 74: 549-579 11 figs [560]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Shark Bay, also amphi-Atlantic (tropical), Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, central and E Pacific Ocean.

Introduced from probably edible oyster shells.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Common in shells of gastropods and bivalves, rare in corals, depth 1–12 m.

 

General References

Rützler, K. & Stone, S.M. 1986. Discovery and significance of Albany Hancock's microscope preparations of excavating sponges (Porifera: Hadromerida: Clionidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 99(4): 658-675 [661] (redescription)

 

History of changes

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)