Species Forcepia (Forcepia) biceps (Carter, 1885)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Suberites biceps Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 15: 107-117 [117].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1886.12.15.52 wet (NMV photos 38/2,3), 35 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC.
• Forcepia michaelseni Hentschel, E. 1911. Tetraxonida. pp. 279-393, 54 figs 2. Teil. in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 3 (10). [337] [includes Forcepia colonensis: Carter, 1885].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH, locality unknown.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.363 dry (=AM G92925 slide, NMV photo 45/32,33, also 'hypotype' of Forcepia colonensis: Carter, 1885).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dendy, A. 1896. Catalogue of non-calcareous sponges collected by J. Bracebridge Wilson, Esq., M.A., in the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads. Part 2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 8: 14-51 [24]

 

Distribution

States

Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Bass Strait, W coast, VIC, WA; Port Phillip Heads, Deal Is., Rottnest Is.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

General References

Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 15: 107-117 [111, pl. 4 fig. 2] (misidentified as Forcepia colonensis Carter, 1874 (part))

Fromont, J. 1999. Demosponges of the Houtman Abrolhos. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 175-184 [177] (Listed in this article)

Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [93]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018	DEMOSPONGIAE Sollas, 1885	18-Sep-2014	MODIFIED	ABRS
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)