Species Ecionemia robusta (Carter, 1883)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stelletta [bacillifera] robusta Carter, H.J. 1883. Contributions to our knowledge of the Spongida. Pachytragida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 11: 344-369 pls 14-15 [351] [bacillifera is a nom. nud. before 1887].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH (not found), Port Elliot and Adelaide, SA [35°32'S 138°41'E and 34°56'S 138°36'E]; BMNH 1954.3.9.559 slide, Australia; BMNH 1954.3.9.560 slide, Port Elliott [35°32'S 138°41'E]; BMNH 1954.3.9.561 slide, Adelaide [34°56'S 138°36'E].
• Psammastra gigas Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [39].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM G9105 wet, 2 fragments of type (NMV photos 19/31–34), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.609 wet (=AM G3633 slide, fragment of type, NMV photos 19/22–25), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1954.2.12.30 2 slides 1/30 (as Papyrula gigas), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lendenfeld, R. von 1903. Tetraxonia. In Schulze, F.E. (ed.) Das Tierreich. Berlin : Friedländer Lf 19 168 pp. 44 figs. [63]

Generic Combinations

• Ancorina robusta (Carter, 1883).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

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.

General References

Carpay, M. 1986. The marine sponges of Tasmania. A checklist of a number of marine sponges, occurring along the Tasmanian coast. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis, Department of Bijzondere Dierkunde, Institute of Taxonomic Zoology, Amsterdam. pp. 1–77. [11]

Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [17]

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