Species Hymeniacidon agminata Ridley, 1884

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• Hymeniacidon agminata Ridley, S.O. 1884. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. Alert, 1881–1882. Spongiida. (Part 1, Australian sponges). London : British Museum (Natural History) 366-482, pls 39-43. [466].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1889.10.21.347 (egaz), 0–9 m, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1889.10.21.348 wet (egaz), 0–9 m, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1889.10.21.347a–348a 2 slides 3–5 (egaz), 0–9 m, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
• Stylotella digitata Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [185].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM G9152 wet (Port Jackson, NMV photos 16/30,31 - egaz), Torres Strait, Port Jackson, NSW [10°25'S 142°10'E, 33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM Z687 wet (Port Jackson, NMV photos 16/9,10 - egaz), [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1887.1.24.18 wet (as Truncatella, AM G3342 slide - egaz), Port Jackson [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1954.2.12.55 slide 3/6; unregistered slide (ex AM 3/5).
• Stylotella rigida Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [186].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM G9151 wet (NMV photo 25/30–32 - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1887.4.27,46 wet (as Truncatella, =AM G3344 slide - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1954.2.12.67 slide 3/6 (egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
• Tedania laxa Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [191].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM Z703 wet (NMV photos 9/33,34; 11/5,6 - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM Z705 wet (NMV photos 9/33,34; 11/5,6 - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM G9147 wet (NMV photos 10/1,2 - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM Z709 wet, 2 specimens (NMV photos 30/16–18), Port Jackson, NSW [egaz]; BMNH 1887.1.24.13 wet (as Amorphorhaphis, AM G3360 slide - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1887.1.24.25–27 (as Truncatella - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; ZMB 1160 7 slides (as Truncatella - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH unregistered slide (ex AM 3/5 - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1954.2.10.80 slide 3/6 (egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
• Tedania tenuispina Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [192].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM G9149 wet (NMV photos 9/35,36 - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1887.4.27.27 wet (as Truncatella microspina - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1887.24.8–9 wet, 2 specimens (as Amorphorhaphis - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
• Hymeniacidon indistincta Brøndsted, H.V. 1923. Sponges from the Auckland and Campbell Islands. In Mortensen, T. (ed.) Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914–16. XV. Vidensk. Meddr. Dansk. Naturh. Foren. Kbh. 75: 117–167. [146].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMUC several specimens (egaz for Southern Ocean, NZ), Southern Ocean, Auckland Ils, New Zealand, Carnley Habour, Masked Is. [45°31'30"S 140°33'43"E, 27°34'19"S 177°59'49"E].

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 [349, 357, 369, 375]
• Koltun, V.M. 1976. Porifera. Part I. Antarctic sponges. Report of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, 1928–31 B Zoology & Botany 9(4): 147-198 pls 1-3 [194]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal waters–10 m.

History of changes