Species Halichondria (Halichondria) carotenoidea Alvarez & Hooper, 2011
- Halichondria carotenoidea Alvarez, B. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2011. Taxonomic revision of the order Halichondrida (Porifera: Demospongiae) of northern Australia. Family Halichondriidae. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 27: 55–84 [70].
Type data:
Holotype NTM Z5909 wet, off Dudley Point, Fannie Bay, Darwin Harbour, NT, 4–7 m depth, 4 June 2002, coll. Alvarez, B and party [12°24.96’S, 130°48.83’E].
Distribution
Extra Distribution Information
Common in Darwin and Bynoe Harbours, and it was also observed at Wessel Is. (Raragala I.) (Alvarez & Hooper 2011). Includes specimens of Halichondria stalagmites sensu Hooper et al. (1997: 43) [in part, not specimens NTM Z.131, Z.1097, Z.1991]. Also Phakellia sp. 614 (Hooper et al. 1992), and Axinella sp. 244 (Hooper et al. 1992).
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Northern Shelf Province (25)
Distribution References
- Hooper, J.N.A., Capon, R.J., Keenan, C.P., Parry, D.L. & Smit, N. 1992. Chemotaxonomy of marine sponges: families Microcionidae, Raspailiidae and Axinellidae, and their relationships with other families in the orders Poecilosclerida and Axinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6(2): 261-301 [261]
- Hooper, J.N.A., Cook, S.D., Hobbs, L.J. & Kennedy, J.A. 1997. Australian Halichondriidae (Porifera: Demospongiae): I. Species from the Beagle Gulf. pp. 1-65 in Hanley, H.R., Caswell, G., Megirian, D. & Larson, H.K. (eds). The Marine Flora and Fauna of Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia. Proceedings of the Sixth International Marine Biology Workshop. Darwin : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 466 pp. [43]
History of changes
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