Species Dysidea avara (Schmidt, 1862)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spongelia avara Schmidt, E.O. 1862. Die Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 7 pls. [29].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1867.7.26.82, -96 2 dry fragments of type (from Sibenik - egaz), Zadar and Sibenik (as Zara and Sebenico), Yugoslavia [44°06'50"N 15°14'27"E and 43°44'20"N 15°53'38"E]; MZUS P0037 dry, 'Adria', doubtful; NMI slide, 'Adriatic', doubtful.
• Spongelia pallescens Schmidt, E.O. 1862. Die Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 7 pls. [30] [lectotype refigured by Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Science Reports of the Geat Barrier Reef Expedition 4: 513–621 pls 1–2 (pl. 2 fig. 4, fig. 30)].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1867.7.26.9, Sibenik (as Sebenico) Yugoslavia.
  Paralectotype(s) MJG 15463 wet; BMNH 1867.7.26.37 dry; BMNH 1877.5.21.313 dry fragment, 'Adriatic', doubtful; MZUS P0028 dry fragment, 'Adria', doubtful.

  Secondary source:

   Desqueyroux-Faundez, R. & Stone, S.M. 1992. O. Schmidt Sponge Catalogue. An illustrated guide to the Graz Museum Collection, with notes on additional material. Geneva : Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle iv+190 pp. 49 pls.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Vacelet, J. 1959. Répartition générale des Eponges et systématique des Eponges cornées de la région de Marseille et de quelques stations méditerranéennes. Recueil des Travaux de la Station Marine d'Endoume. Marseille 26: 39-101 pls 1-3 [69] (as variety)
• Rützler, K. 1965. Systematik und Ökologie der Poriferen aus Litoral-Schattengebieten der Nordadria. Zeitschrift für die Morphologie und Ökologie die Tiere 55: 1-82 [42] (as form)
• Hooper, J.N.A. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994] (questions the conspecificity of the Mediterranean and Indo-west Pacific populations; the Australian populations may represent a new species)

 

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Port Phillip Heads, Deal Is., NE and E Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indo-Malayan region, W and central Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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 1–103 m.

 

General References

Capon, R.J. & MacLeod, J.K. 1987. Thiofurodysinin, a sulphur containing Furanosesquiterpene from the marine sponge Dysidea avara (Schmidt). Journal of Natural Products 50: 1136 [1136]

Desqueyroux-Faundez, R. & Stone, S.M. 1992. O. Schmidt Sponge Catalogue. An illustrated guide to the Graz Museum Collection, with notes on additional material. Geneva : Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle iv+190 pp. 49 pls. (re type data)

Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [144]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		02-May-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)