Species Echinoclathria subhispida Carter, 1885

Museums

Regional Maps

• Echinoclathria subhispida Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 16: 347-368 [356].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1886.12.15.70 wet (NMV photo 37/15), 19 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.73 wet (NMV photo 37/16).
• Echinoclathria gracilis Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 16: 347-368 [356] [type series composite].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1886.12.15.45 wet (NMV photo 36/0, =AM G2768 slide), 38 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.90 wet (NMV photo 36/1,2, =AM G2773 slide)).
• Thalassodendron viminalis Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [225].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM Z948 dry (NMV photo 9/17), Illawarra, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1887.4.27.116 dry (NMV photo 49/25,26, =AM G3589 slide); ZMB 7135 slide, fragment of type.

 

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] [280]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Illawarra region, Port Phillip Bay, Kangaroo Is.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 38–440 m; rock reef, sand, seagrass substrates.

 

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] [477]

 

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
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