Species Echinodictyum mesenterinum (Lamarck, 1814)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spongia mesenterina Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de Monet 1814. Sur les polypiers empâtés. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 20: 294-312, 370-386, 432-458 [444].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHN Paris LBIM DT568, Shark Bay, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1954.2.20.44 slide; MNHN Paris LBIM DT3355.

  Type locality references:

  Hooper, J.N.A. 1991. Revision of the family Raspailiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae), with descriptions of Australian species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5(6): 1179-1418 [1379].

  Secondary source:

   Topsent, E. 1932. Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Deuxième partie. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 6 8: 61-124 2 figs pls 1-6 [101]; Hooper, J.N.A. 1991. Revision of the family Raspailiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae), with descriptions of Australian species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5(6): 1179-1418 [1379].
• [Spongia bilamellata] Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de Monet 1814. Sur les polypiers empâtés. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 20: 294-312, 370-386, 432-458 [434] [var. b only, not the 'typical form' of Spongia bilamellata (MNHN LBIM DT602,3383) redescribed by Topsent, E. 1932. Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Deuxième partie. Arch. Mus. Natl Hist. Nat. Paris 6 8: 61–124 2 figs pls 1–6, as Cribrochalina, which belongs to Callyspongia; 'var. b' was redescribed on the following page and erroneously named Echinodictyum bilamellatum by Topsent].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHN Paris LBIM DT603, Kangaroo Is., Great Australian Bight, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) MNHN Paris LBIM DT3384.

  Secondary source:

   Topsent, E. 1932. Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Deuxième partie. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 6 8: 61-124 2 figs pls 1-6 [68].
• Echinonema vasiplicata Carter, H.J. 1882. New sponges, observations on old ones, and a proposed new group. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 10: 106-125 [114].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1877.5.21.1854 dry (NMV photo 47/14), Fremantle, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1887.5.21.1853 dry; BMNH 1887.5.21.46 dry.
• Kalykenteron elegans Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [216].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM G9129 dry (NMV photos 1/33,34), precise locality unknown, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) AM B5481 dry (NMV photos 3/5,6); AM Z958 dry (=AM B5492, NMV photo 3/7); BMNH 1887.1.24.74 dry (NMV photos 47/17,18).
• Kalykenteron silex Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [217].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM G9130 dry (NMV photos 3/8,9), precise locality unknown, east coast of Australia.
• Echinodictyum topsenti Laubenfels, M.W. de 1936. A discussion of the sponge fauna of the Dry Tortugas in particular, and the West Indies in general, with material for a revision of the families and orders of the Porifera. (Tortugas Lab. Paper No. 467). Publication of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Washington 30: 1-225 22 pls 1 map [63] [replacement name for Echinodictyum bilamellatum sensu Ridley, 1881, not Echinodictyum bilamellatum (Lamarck, 1814), ‘typical form’].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1881.10.21.265 dry, Port Curtis, QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Ridley, S.O. & Duncan, P.M. 1881. On the genus Plocamia Schmidt, and on some other sponges of the order Echinonemata. With descriptions of two additional new species of Dirrhopalum. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 15: 476-497 pls 28-29 [495].
• Thalassodendron typica Whitelegge, T. 1901. Report on sponges from the coastal beaches of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 4: 55-118 pls 10-15 [86] [junior homonym of Thalassodendron typica Lendenfeld, 1888].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM Z958 dry (=B5481, B5492), precise locality unknown, WA.
  Paratype(s) AM Z2141; AM E958.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ridley, S.O. 1884. Notes on sponges, with descriptions of a new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 14: 183-187 [185]
• Hallmann, E.F. 1914. A revision of the monaxonid species described as new in Lendenfeld's 'Catalogue of the sponges in the Australian Museum'. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39(Part 1): 263–315 1 fig. pls 15–24 [267]
• Topsent, E. 1932. Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Deuxième partie. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 6 8: 61-124 2 figs pls 1-6 [69, 101]
• Hooper, J.N.A. 1991. Revision of the family Raspailiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae), with descriptions of Australian species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5(6): 1179-1418 [1379]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

This species has a circum-Australian distribution, and also widely distributed throughout the Indo-west Pacific (Hooper 1991, Hooper et al. 2008). In Australia it is particularly common in tropical waters on both sides of the continent. It is also recorded from Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore and Indonesia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth subtidal–86 m.

 

General References

Fromont, J. 2003. Porifera (Sponges) in the Dampier Archipelago: Taxonomic affinities and biogeography. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Marine Biological Workshop. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Dampier, Western Australia. 405-417 pp. [409] (Listed in this article)

Hooper, J.N.A. 1991. Revision of the family Raspailiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae), with descriptions of Australian species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5(6): 1179-1418 [1379]

Hooper, J.N.A., Capon, R.J., Keenan, C.P., Parry, D.L. & Smit, N. 1992. Chemotaxonomy of marine sponges: families Microcionidae, Raspailiidae and Axinellidae, and their relationships with other families in the orders Poecilosclerida and Axinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6(2): 261-301 [264]

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] (Listed in this article)

Hooper, J.N.A., Sutcliffe, P. & Schlacher-Hoenlinger, M.A. 2008. New species of Raspailiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida) from southeast Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 54(1): 1–22 [In, Davie, P.J.F. & Phillips, J.A. (Eds), Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay, Queensland] [15]

Hooper, J.N.A. & Kennedy, J.A. 2002. Small-scale patterns of sponge biodiversity (Porifera) on Sunshine Coast reefs, eastern Australia. Invertebrate Systematics 16(4): 637-653 [640] (Listed in this article)

Ridley, S.O. & Duncan, P.M. 1881. On the genus Plocamia Schmidt, and on some other sponges of the order Echinonemata. With descriptions of two additional new species of Dirrhopalum. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 15: 476-497 pls 28-29 [493] (misidentified as Echinodictyum bilamellatum (Lamarck, 1814))

Sorokin, S., Fromont, J. & Currie, D. 2007. Demosponge biodiversity in the Benthic Protection Zone of the Great Australian Bight. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 132(2): 192-204 [195]

 

History of changes

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