Species Darwinella australiensis Carter, 1885
- Darwinella australiensis Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 15: 196-222 [202].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH unknown dry (egaz), 38 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]. - Darwinella simplex Topsent, E. 1892. Diagnoses d'Eponges nouvelles de la Méditerranée et plus particulièrement de Banyuls. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 2 10(Notes Rev.): xvii-xxviii [xxvii].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHN unknown wet (egaz for Banyuls), 25–30 m, Cap l'Abeille near Banyuls, Mediterranean Coast of France [42°29'13"N 3°06'28"E]. - Darwinella simplex Topsent, E. 1904. Spongiaires des Açores. Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco 25: 1-280 18 pls [55] [junior homonym of Darwinella simplex Topsent, 1892].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHN unknown 4 specimens (egaz), 200 m, Azores [37°45'25"N 29°21'25"W]. - Darwinella duplex Topsent, E. 1905. Etude sur les Dendroceratida. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 4 3: clxxi-cxcii 3 figs [clxxix] [nom. nov. for
Darwinella simplex Topsent, 1904].Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHN unknown wet. - Darwinella viscosa Boury-Esnault, N. 1971. Spongiaires de la zone rocheuse de Banyuls-sur-Mer. II. Systématique. Vie et Milieu B 22: 287-350 [334].
Type data:
Holotype MNHN NBE 69-'2" wet (egaz for Banyuls), 11 m, Sphinx, Cap Castell near Banyuls, Mediterranean Coast, France [42°29'13"N 3°06'28"E].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Pronzato, R. 1975. Note tassonomiche sul genere Darwinella (Porifera). Bollettino dei Musei e degli Instituti Biologici della Università di Genova 43: 5-20 [8]
Distribution
Extra Distribution Information
Port Phillip Heads, Deal Is., also Indo-Malayan region, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and amphi-Atlantic.
IMCRA
Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)
Ecological Descriptors
Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.
Extra Ecological Information
Depth 11–200 m.
General References
Davis, A.R., Fyfe, S.K., Turon, X. & Uriz, M.J. 2003. Size matters sometimes: wall height and the structure of subtidal benthic invertebrate assemblages in south-eastern Australia and Mediterranean Spain. Journal of Biogeography 30: 1797-1807 [1804] (listed in this article)
Santalova, E.A., Makarieva, T.N., Gorshkova, I.A., Dmitrenok, A.S., Krasokhin, V.B. & Stonik, V.A. 2004. Sterols from six marine sponges. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 32: 153-167 [153] (listed in this article)
Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [147]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 29-Mar-2018 | 15-Dec-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 29-Mar-2018 | 13-Apr-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |