Species Holopsamma crassa Carter, 1885

Museums

Regional Maps

• Holopsamma crassa Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 15: 196-222 [211].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1886.12.15.313 dry (NMV photo 52/20 - egaz), under 38 m, Port Phillip Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.314 dry; BMNH 1886.12.15.316 (NMV photo 52/19); BMNH 1886.12.15.410; BMNH 1886.12.15.485; BMNH 1886.12.15.316 dry; BMNH 1886.12.15.410 dry; BMNH 1886.12.15.485 dry.
• Halme globosa Lendenfeld, R. von 1885. A monograph of the Australian sponges. Part 5. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 282-325 pls 26-35 [303] [only one of two syntypes still extant].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1886.8.27.71 wet (NMV photo 37/28,29 (=AM G3753 slide) - egaz), Port Phillip Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
• Halme micropora Lendenfeld, R. von 1885. A monograph of the Australian sponges. Part 5. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 282-325 pls 26-35 [304].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1886.8.27.89 dry (=BMNH 1886.8.27.90 slide (=AM G3779 slide) - egaz), Illawarra, NSW [37°04'S 142°42'E].
  Paralectotype(s) AM G8828 dry (NMV photos 5/9,10).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hooper, J.N.A. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994] [281]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

SE coast, Bass Strait, S coast, Central coast, QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, TAS; Lake Illawarra, Wollongong, Port Phillip Bay, Port Phillip Heads, Gulf St Vincent, Kangaroo Is., Port Noarlunga, Gull's Nest Point, Byron Bay, Moreton Bay.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

2–38 m depth; rock reef, sand and kelp beds.

 

General References

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 Unpublished M.Sc.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. [24]

Fromont, J. 1999. Demosponges of the Houtman Abrolhos. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 175-184 [180] (Listed in this article)

Hooper, J.N.A. 1996. Revision of Microcionidae (Porifera: Poecilosclerida: Demospongiae), with description of Australian species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 40: 1-626 [Date published 01/06/1996] [487]

Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [63, 65, table 1] (list of affinities of some syntypes)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		02-May-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)