Species Holopsamma laminaefavosa Carter, 1885

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Species Holopsamma laminaefavosa Carter, 1885

Holopsamma laminaefavosa 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 [212] [type series composite, excluded syntypes labelled 'Dysidea prolifera Burton ms'].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1886.12.15.312 dry (=AM G2879 slide, BMNH 1886.12.15.311 slide), Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.420 dry (NMV photo 54/12); BMNH 1886.12.15.490 dry (NMV photo 54/13–15); BMNH 1886.12.15.491 dry (=AM G2875 slide); BMNH 1886.12.15.419 dry.
Halme nidusvesparum 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 [288].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1886.8.27.73 wet (=BMNH 1886.8.27.74 slide - egaz), 5–20 m, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
Echinoclathria favus arenifera Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 16: 347-368 [350].
Type data:
Status unknown, BMNH missing dry, 'south coast'.
Halme laxa Lendenfeld, R. von 1886. A monograph of the Australian sponges. Addendum 2. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 845-850 [845] [collective name, not the nominate subspecies; holotype without distinction of subspecies on label].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1886.12.13.24 wet (egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
Halme laxa digitata Lendenfeld, R. von 1886. A monograph of the Australian sponges. Addendum 2. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 845-850 [847].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1886.8.27.266 wet (as Psamella digitata (=AM G3652 slide) - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
Paralectotype(s) AM Z121–Z124, 4 dry (NMV photo 4/22,23); AM Z120 wet (NMV photo 18/8); AM G9125 dry (NMV photo 5/0); AM G3759 fragments of types?, slide ex BMNH; ZMB 6396 1 slide, no locality.
Halme laxa minima Lendenfeld, R. von 1886. A monograph of the Australian sponges. Addendum 2. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 845-850 [847].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1886.8.27.75 wet (=BMNH 1886.8.27.76 slide - egaz), 30 m, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
Paralectotype(s) AM Z125 wet (NMV photo 18/5–7); AM G9157 dry (NMV photo 5/1); AM G3780 fragments of types?, slide ex BMNH; BMNH 1886.8.27.77 slide.
Halme gigantea Lendenfeld, R. von 1886. A monograph of the Australian sponges. Addendum 2. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 845-850 [848] [collective name, no nominate subspecies; holotype without identification of subspecies].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1886.12.13.19 wet, East Coast of Australia.
Halme gigantea intermedia Lendenfeld, R. von 1886. A monograph of the Australian sponges. Addendum 2. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 845-850 [849].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1886.8.27.91 wet (=BMNH 1886.8.27.92 slide), Broughton Is., NSW [32°37'S 152°21'E].
Paralectotype(s) AM AM A5544 dry, 3 specimens, (NMV photo 3/34); AM Z117 wet (NMV photo 14/3–5); AM G3762 2 slides ex BMNH, fragment of type; BMNH 1886.8.27.79 dry; BMNH 1886.8.27.80 slide; ZMB 1177 3 slides, fragment of type.
Halme gigantea macropora Lendenfeld, R. von 1886. A monograph of the Australian sponges. Addendum 2. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 845-850 [850].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1886.8.27.85 wet (=BMNH 1886.8.27.86 slide), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
Paratype(s) AM Z714 wet (NMV photo 19/5,6); AM G9158 dry (NMV photo 3/35); BMNH 1886.12.15.312 dry (type of Holopsamma laminaefavosa Carter, as lamina, =AM G2878 slide); BMNH 1886.8.27.83 dry (=BMNH 1886.8.27.84 slide); AM G3760 slide, ex BMNH, fragment of type.
Halme irregularis Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. [49] [collective name for var. lamellosa and micropora, no nominate subspecies].
Halme irregularis lamellosa Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. [49].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1886.12.15.490 dry (=AM G2876), Port Phillip, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
Paratype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.420 dry; BMNH 1886.12.15.419 dry.
Halme irregularis micropora Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. [49].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1886.2.15.491 dry (=AM G2875 slide, =syntype of Holopsamma laminaefavosa Carter), Port Phillip, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.504 dry (=AM G2874 slide).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Wiedenmayer, F. 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] [282]
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] [496]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Byron Bay, Illawarra, Broughton l., Sandon Bluffs, Port Jackson, Tuggerah Beach, Maroubra, Barranjoey, Jervis Bay, Port Stephens, NSW; Port Phillip Heads, Westernport Bay, Queenscliff, VIC; Great Australian Bight, SA; Bass Strait, Maria Is., Blackman's Bay, TAS; Noosa Heads, Tweed River, QLD; reported localities of Torres Strait (Lendenfeld, 1888) and Singapore (Dragnewitsch, 1906) are suspect.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)