Species Fasciospongia pikei (Hyatt, 1877)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stelospongia pikei Hyatt, A. 1877. A revision of the North American Poriferae, with remarks upon foreign species. Part 2. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 2: 481-554 pls 15-17 [532].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1939.2.24.9 dry (ex MCZ 156 - egaz), Mauritius, Indian Ocean [20°31'51"S 57°47'59"E]; BMNH 1939.2.24.8 dry (fragment of type, ex MCZ - egaz), Mauritius, Indian Ocean [20°31'51"S 57°47'59"E]; BMNH 1939.2.24.6 slide (egaz), Mauritius, Indian Ocean [20°31'51"S 57°47'59"E]; MCZ unknown unknown number of specimens (egaz), Mauritius, Indian Ocean [20°31'51"S 57°47'59"E].

  Secondary source:

   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 [100, pl. 12 figs 21, 21a]; Whitelegge, T. 1902. Supplementary notes to the report on sponges from the coastal beaches of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 4: 211-216 [212].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Illawarra, Tuggerah Beach.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

General References

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] (Lendenfeld's Australian 'hypotypes' (AM G3936, BMNH 1886.8.27.323, both dry, labelled Euspongia officinalis var. sertalis ms., cited as Euspongia pikei Lendenfeld, 1888, by 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, Whitelegge, T. 1902. Supplementary notes to the report on sponges from the coastal beaches of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 4: 211–216 following Lendenfeld) are probably neither Fasciospongia nor Spongia)

 

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)