Species Cymbastela coralliophila Hooper & Bergquist, 1992

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cymbastela coralliophila Hooper, J.N.A. & Bergquist, P.R. 1992. Cymbastela, a new genus of lamellate coral reef sponges. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 32(1): 99-137 [120].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM Z4038 wet, South side of Blanchard Reef, Great Barrier Reef, QLD [13°25'S 143°45'E, 18°00'S 146°50'E].

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Subtidal–20 m, coral reef habitats, including lagoon and reef slope.

General References

Alvarez, B., Crisp, M.D., Driver, F., Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships of the family Axinellidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) using morphological and molecular data. Zoologica Scripta 29(2): 169-198 [172] (Listed in this article)

Bergquist, P.R., Hofheinz, W. & Oesterhelt, G. 1980. Sterol composition and the classification of the Demospongiae. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 8: 423-435 7 tables [424] (as Pseudaxinyssa n.sp.)

Erpenbeck, D., List-Armitage, S., Alvarez, B., Degnan, B.M., Wörheide, G. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2007. The systematics of Raspailiidae (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida: Microcionina) re-analysed with a ribosomal marker. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 87: 1571–1576 [1573]

Hooper, J.N.A., List-Armitage, S.E., Kennedy, J.A., Cook, S.D. & Valentine, C.A. 1999. Sponges of the Low Isles, Great Barrier Reef: an important scientific site, or a case of mistaken identity? Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 249-262 [259] (Listed in this article)

Makarieva, T.N., Stonik, V.A., Dmitrenok, A.S., Krasokhin, V.B., Svetashev, V.I. & Vysotskii, M.V. 1995. New polar steroids from the sponges Trachyopsis halichondroides and Cymbastela coralliophila. Steroids 60: 316-320 [316]

Nevalainen, T.J., Quinn, R.J. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2004. Phospholipase A2 in Porifera. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 137(B): 413-420 [415]

Wilkinson, C.R. 1983. Net primary productivity in coral reef sponges. Science (Washington, D.C.) 219: 410-412 [411] (as Pseudaxinyssa sp.)

History of changes