Species Dragmacidon australe (Bergquist, 1970)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pseudaxinella australis Bergquist, P.R. 1970. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 2 (Axinellida and Halichondrida). (Mem. N.Z. Oceanogr. Inst. 51). Bulletin of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 197: 1-85 20 pls 3 figs [20].

  Type data:

   Holotype MONZ Por. 26 (egaz), N New Zealand [27°34'19"S 177°59'49"E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Pseudaxinella australis (Bergquist, 1970). —
  Alvarez De Glasby, B. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Axinellidae Carter, 1875. pp. 724-747 in Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera: A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 1. [735]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Also New Zealand.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 3–33 m.

 

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 as 'Pseudaxinella australia')

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]

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] (Referred to as "Pseudaxinella" in this article rather than 'Dragmacidon')

Hooper, J.N.A. & Lévi, C. 1993. Axinellida from the New Caledonian lagoon (Porifera: Demospongiae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7(6): 1395-1472 (distribution)

 

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)