Species Heterorotula contraversa Racek, 1969

Museums

Regional Maps

• Heterorotula contraversa Racek, A.A. 1969. The freshwater sponges of Australia (Porifera: Spongillidae). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 20: 267-310 [296] [misidentified by Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Süsswasser-Coelenteraten Australiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher 2: 87–108 (90) as Spongilla lacustris Linnaeus, 1759 which is restricted to the Northern Hemisphere; central Australian material wrongly identified as Ephydatia multidentata Ris, 1931 by Gee, N.G. 1931. Freshwater sponges from Australia and New Zealand. Records of the Australian Museum 18: 25–62 (51)].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM Z2904 (egaz), Bokhara River near Brewarrina, NSW [29°55'S 146°42'E].

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

W slopes and plains of E Australia, ranging W to central Australia, rarely penetrating the Dividing Range eastward.

Ecological Descriptors

Lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater.

Extra Ecological Information

Generally in alkaline lotic waters, massive and bulbous growth, consistency hard and firm, armature of gemmules well developed in arid areas.

General References

Gee, N.G. 1931. Freshwater sponges from Australia and New Zealand. Records of the Australian Museum 18: 25-62 [51] (mistakenly identified central Australian material as Ephydatia multidentata Ris, 1931)

Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Süsswasser-Coelenteraten Australiens. Zoologische Jahrbücher 2: 87-108 [90] (misidentified specimens as Spongilla lacustris which is restricted to Northern Hemisphere)

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