Species Haliclona (Haliclona) venustina (Bergquist, 1961)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Adocia venustina Bergquist, P.R. 1961. A collection of Porifera from northern New Zealand, with descriptions of seventeen new species. Pacific Science 15: 33-48 18 figs [37].

  Type data:

   Holotype MONZ Por. 82 (egaz), Noises Ils, Northland, New Zealand [27°34'19"S 177°59'49"E].

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

One Tree Point, also North Island, New Zealand.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth intertidal–shallow subtidal.

 

General References

Bergquist, P.R. & Warne, K.P. 1980. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 3 (Haplosclerida and Nepheliospongida). Memoirs of the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute 87: 1-77 17 pls 4 figs [21]

Carpay, M. 1986. The marine sponges of Tasmania. A checklist of a number of marine sponges, occurring along the Tasmanian coast. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis, Department of Bijzondere Dierkunde, Institute of Taxonomic Zoology, Amsterdam. pp. 1–77. [37]

 

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)