Species Gelliodes fibulatus (Carter, 1881)
- Axos fibulata Carter, H.J. 1881. Supplementary report on specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar, together with others from the sea in the vicinity of the Basse Rocks and from Bass's Straits respectively, presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt. H. Cawne Warren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 7: 361-385 pl. 18 [383].
Type data:
Holotype (ex LFM, destroyed - egaz), Bass Strait, TAS [39°20'S 145°30'E]. Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1882.2.23.226 wet (egaz), 4–17 m, Prince of Wales Channel and Thursday Is., Torres Strait [10°30'S 142°15'E, 10°25'S 142°10'E]; BMNH 1882.2.23.240 wet (egaz), 4–17 m, Prince of Wales Channel and Thursday Is., Torres Strait [10°30'S 142°15'E, 10°25'S 142°10'E]; BMNH 1882.2.23.202 dry (egaz), 4–17 m, Prince of Wales Channel and Thursday Is., Torres Strait [10°30'S 142°15'E, 10°25'S 142°10'E]; BMNH 1882.2.23.547 wet (egaz), 4–17 m, Prince of Wales Channel and Thursday Is., Torres Strait [10°30'S 142°15'E, 10°25'S 142°10'E]; 1882.2.23.548 wet (egaz), 4–17 m, Prince of Wales Channel and Thursday Is., Torres Strait [10°30'S 142°15'E, 10°25'S 142°10'E]; BMNH 1882.2.23.549 wet (egaz), 4–17 m, Prince of Wales Channel and Thursday Is., Torres Strait [10°30'S 142°15'E, 10°25'S 142°10'E]; BMNH 1882.2.23.193 dry (egaz), 4–17 m, Prince of Wales Channel and Thursday Is., Torres Strait [10°30'S 142°15'E, 10°25'S 142°10'E]; BMNH 1882.2.23.202a–226a–240a 3 slides, 3/62 (egaz), 4–17 m, Prince of Wales Channel and Thursday Is., Torres Strait [10°30'S 142°15'E, 10°25'S 142°10'E].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [549]
- Burton, M. 1959. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition 10(5): 151-281 41 figs [226]
Distribution
States
Queensland, Tasmania
Extra Distribution Information
Torres Strait and Prince of Wales Channel, Thursday Is., Cape York, also Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, New Guinea and New Caledonia.
IMCRA
Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.
Extra Ecological Information
Depth 5–37 m (220–897 m?).
General References
Fromont, J. 1993. Descriptions of species of the Haplosclerida (Porifera: Demospongiae) occurring in the tropical waters of the Great Barrier Reef. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 10: 7-40 [26] (redescription and new records)
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. [408] (Listed in this article)
Hooper, J.N.A. 1986. Revision of the marine sponge genus Axos Gray (Demospongiae: Axinellida) from Northwest Australia. The Beagle. Occasional Papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3(1): 167-189 pl. 1 [184-187, figs 11-12, pl. 1E] (redescribed)
History of changes
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12-Feb-2010 | (import) |