Species Dysidea fragilis (Montagu, 1814)

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• Spongia fragilis Montagu, G. 1814. An essay on sponges with descriptions of all the species that have been discovered on the coast of Great Britain. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh 2: 67-122 pls 3-16 [114].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 30.7.3.447, Devon, England [no coords available egaz].

  Secondary source:

   Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [583]; Wiedenmayer, F. 1977. Shallow-water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel : Birkhäuser (Experientia Suppl. 28) 287 pp. 43 pls. [72].
• Spongelia pallescens elastica Schulze, F.E. 1878. Untersuchungen über den Bau und die Entwicklung der Spongien. Sechste Mittheilung. Die Gattung Spongelia. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 32: 117-157 pls 5-8 [150] [also pages and plates: 154, pl. 5 figs 4, 7, pl. 6 figs 3, 5–7, pl. 7 figs 1–5, pl. 8 figs 8–1,1 pl. 8 figs 8–11, varieties massa and obesa].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MJG (egaz for Trieste), Bay of Muggia (Trieste), Adriatic Sea [45°38'42"N 13°46'37"E].
• Spongelia elastica crassa Dendy, A. 1905. Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. 57-246 pls 1-16 in Herdman, W.A. (ed.). Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. London : Royal Society Vol. 3 Suppl. 18. [209].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1907.2.1.91 wet, Gulf of Mannar, Sri Lanka [8°36'39"N 78°35'27"E].
• Spongelia oculata Burton, M. 1929. Porifera. Part 2. Antarctic sponges. In, British Antarctic (`Terra Nova') Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report. Zoology. 6(4): 393–458 pls 1–5. 393-458 pls 1-5 [448].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1926.10.26.245 wet, 278 m, off McMurdo Sound, New Zealand Antarctic Terr. [no coords available egaz].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [192] (questions the conspecificity of the eastern European and Indo-west Pacific populations)
• Wiedenmayer, F. 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] [192]

 

Generic Combinations

• Dysidea fragilis (Montagu, 1814).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr., Satellite Reef, North Direction Is., Pasco Reef, Port Jackson, Maroubra, Coogee, Port Phillip Bay, Maria Is., Mawson Coast, circum-Atlantic, Mediterranean, S Africa, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, New Zealand, W Pacific, Subantarctic and Antarctic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 0–640 m.

 

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)