Species Dendrilla cactos (Selenka, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spongelia cactos Selenka, E. 1867. Ueber einige neue Schwämme aus der Südsee. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 17: 565-571 pl. 35 [566] [not Dendrilla cactus Bergquist, 1961; original description partly erroneous; holotype redescribed by Schulze, F.E. 1878. Untersuchungen über den Bau und die Entwicklung der Spongien. Vierte Mittheilung. Die Familie der Aplysinidae. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 30: 379–420 pls 21–24 (417)].

  Type data:

   Holotype (previously in Zoological Institute in Göttingen - egaz), Bass Strait, VIC [39°20'S 145°30'E].
• Luffaria digitata 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 [201].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH unknown (not found - egaz), 38 m, Port Phillip Heads [38°07'S 144°48'E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [152]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Port Jackson, Green Point, Port Phillip Heads, Westernport Bay, Deal Is., Adelaide, Stockyard Point, Rocky Cape and also Indo-Malayan region and New Caledonia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 8–50 m; rocky reefs.

 

General References

Carpay, M. 1986. The marine sponges of Tasmania. A checklist of a number of marine sponges, occurring along the Tasmanian coast. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis, Department of Bijzondere Dierkunde, Institute of Taxonomic Zoology, Amsterdam. pp. 1–77. [44]

Hooper, J.N.A. & Kennedy, J.A. 2002. Small-scale patterns of sponge biodiversity (Porifera) on Sunshine Coast reefs, eastern Australia. Invertebrate Systematics 16(4): 637-653 [640] (listed as 'Dendrilla rosea')

Urban, S., Butler, M.S. & Capon, R.J. 1994. Lamellarins O and P: new aromatic metabolites from the Australian marine sponge Dendrilla cactos. Australian Journal of Chemistry 47: 1919-1924 [1919]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018	PORIFERA Grant, 1836	27-Mar-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Kathryn Hall
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)