Species Echinoclathria digitata (Lendenfeld, 1888)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thalassodendron digitata Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [223] [Echinochalina, see Thiele, J. 1903. Kieselschwämme von Ternate. II. Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 25: 933–968 pl. 28 (962); Hallmann, E.F. 1912. Report on the sponges obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, 1909–10. Part 1. Zool. Results Fish. Exp. Endeavour 2: 117–300 69 figs pls 21–36 (202, 288, 299); gen. and sp. dub., see Hallmann, E.F. 1914. A revision of the monaxonid species described as new in Lendenfeld's ‘Catalogue of the sponges in the Australian Museum’. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 263–315 1 fig. pls 15–24 (267); Hallmann, E.F. 1914. A revision of the monaxonid species described as new in Lendenfeld's ‘Catalogue of the sponges in the Australian Museum’. Part 3. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 398–446 23 figs (412)].

  Type data:

   Neotype QM G304763 wet (holotype not located in BMNH, ZMB or AM), holotype from Torres Strait, N QLD; neotype from Snake Reef, Howick Is, GBR, N QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

21m depth; soft substrate, inter-reef region.

General References

Hooper, J.N.A. 1996. Revision of Microcionidae (Porifera: Poecilosclerida: Demospongiae), with description of Australian species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 40: 1-626 [Date published 01/06/1996] [453]

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