Species Grantessa sacca Lendenfeld, 1885

Museums

Regional Maps

• Grantessa sacca Lendenfeld, R. von 1885. A monograph of the Australian sponges. Part 3. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 1083-1150 pls 59-67 [1098].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1886.6.7.27, 9–18 m, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1886.6.7.27, 9–18 m, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1886.6.7.29 slide of BMNH 1886.6.7.27, 9–18 m, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM G3591 fragment of type, slide, 9–18 m, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM G9087 wet (with 2 fragments of types?) (NMV photos 28/35,36), 9–18 m, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; ZMB 1103, 9–18 m, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].

  Secondary source:

   Breitfuss, L.L. 1898. Catalog der Calcarea der Zoologischen Sammlung des Königlichen Museums für Naturkunde zu Berlin. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 63: 205-226 2 figs [220]; Burton, M. 1963. A Revision of the Classification of the Calcareous Sponges. London : British Museum pp. 1-693 figs 1-375. [612].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 9–18 m.

History of changes