Species Cymbastela vespertina Hooper & Bergquist, 1992

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cymbastela vespertina 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 [110].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM Z3939 wet (fragment of type QM G300010 - egaz), N side of Cumberland Strait, Wessel Is, NT [11°27'S 136°27'E, 11°30'S 136°25'E].
  Paratype(s) NTM Z2615 wet; QM G300002 wet.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 6–32 m, predominantly subtidal, inshore coral reef habitats.

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)

Alvarez, B. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2009. Taxonomic revision of the order Halichondrida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from northern Australia. Family Axinellidae. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 25: 17-42 [27]

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]

Fromont, J. 2003. Porifera (Sponges) in the Dampier Archipelago: Taxonomic affinities and biogeography. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Marine Biological Workshop. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Dampier, Western Australia. 405-417 pp. [408] (Listed in this article)

Hooper, J.N.A. 1988. Character Stability, Systematics and Affinities Between Microcionidae (Poecilosclerida) and Axinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae). A Revision of the Australasian Microcionidae. Unpublished Doctor of Philosophy Thesis, University of Queensland, Department of Zoology, Brisbane. Vols 1 & 2 1208 pp. figs 1–141 pls 1–43. [969] (as Pseudaxinyssa n.sp.)

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 [265] (as Pseudaxinyssa n.sp.)

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