Species Hemitedania anonyma (Carter, 1886)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amorphina anonyma Carter, H.J. 1886. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 17: 40-53, 112-127 [49] [type series composite, first syntype to Acarnus see Burton, ms on specimen label].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.119 wet (NMV photos 38/4–6, =AM G2759 slide), 10–34 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC; BMNH 1886.12.15.390 dry (NMV photos 45/25–27), 10–34 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC; BMNH 1886.12.15.466 dry (NMV photos 45/28,29), 10–34 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC.
• Halichondria rubra Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [80].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM Z638 wet (not found), 30 m, Port Jackson, NSW; AM Z877 wet, many specimens, 2 jars (NMV photos 25/2–8, 25/20,21), 30 m, Port Jackson, NSW; BMNH unregistered wet (as Halichondria rubra var. tenella, =AM G3375 slide), 30 m, Port Jackson, NSW; BMNH 1887.1.24.45–46 wet (2 specimens, as Halichondria rubra var. crassa), 30 m, Port Jackson, NSW; ZMB 1159 2 slides, 30 m, Port Jackson, NSW; ZMB 1149 7 slides (as Amorphina rubra), 30 m, Port Jackson, NSW.
• Halichondria rubra digitata [part.] Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [81] [only one of two nominated syntypes: description only; figured specimen =Raspailia arbuscula (Lendenfeld)]].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM Z666 wet (not AM G9045, NMV photos 10/9–13), Port Jackson, NSW.

  Secondary source:

   Hallmann, E.F. 1914. A revision of the monaxonid species described as new in Lendenfeld's 'Catalogue of the sponges in the Australian Museum'. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39(Part 2): 327–376 12 figs [338].
• Reniera pandaea Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [79].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM G9015 wet (NMV photos 23/29–32), Port Jackson, NSW; BMNH 1887.4.27.36 wet (=AM G3372, slide, as Pellina), NZ.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hallmann, E.F. 1914. A revision of the monaxonid species described as new in Lendenfeld's 'Catalogue of the sponges in the Australian Museum'. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39(Part 2): 327–376 12 figs [334, 338]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Port Stephens, Port Jackson, Green Point, Shark Reef and Port Phillip Heads. Also known from the Great Australian Bight

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 7–57 m.

 

General References

Sorokin, S., Fromont, J. & Currie, D. 2007. Demosponge biodiversity in the Benthic Protection Zone of the Great Australian Bight. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 132(2): 192-204 [195]

Sorokin, S.J., Currie, D.R. & Ward, T.M. 2005. Sponges of the Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Benthic Protection Zone). SARDI Research Report Series Adelaide : SARDI Aquatic Sciences Publication No RD04/0170 Part 65 pp. 1-92. [41]

 

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
		06-Aug-2010	MODIFIED