Species Hyrtios gumminae (Ridley, 1884)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dysidea gumminae Ridley, S.O. 1884. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. Alert, 1881–2. Part II. Collections from the western Indian Ocean. Spongiida. London : British Museum (Natural History) 582-630 pls 53-54. [597].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH unknown wet, slides (egaz), Mozambique; 35 m, Providence Is., Mascarene group [19°30'28"S 34°04'52"E, 9°13'51"S 51°04'30"E, 22°15'53"S 56°21'21"E].
• Duriella nigra Row, R.W.H. 1911. Report on the sponges collected by Mr. Cyril Crossland, 1904–5. Part II. Non-Calcarea. In Reports on the marine biology of the Sudanese Red Sea XIX. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology Zool. 31: 287-400 pls 35-41 [370].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH 1937.8.30.1 wet, Red Sea [22°32'56"N 37°06'43"E].
• Thorectopsamma irregularis Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [577].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1930.8.13.217 wet (egaz), 37–46 m, Papuan Pass, Great Barrier Reef [15°46'S 145°48'E, 18°00'S 146°50'E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bergquist, P.R. 1965. The sponges of Micronesia, Part I. The Palau Archipelago. Pacific Science 19: 123-204 34 figs [129]
• Bergquist, P.R. 1980. A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida (Class Demospongiae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 7: 443-503 figs 1-25 pls [456, 462, 464]
• 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] [231] (synonym of Hyrtions gumminae (Ridley, 1884), but this is unsubstantiated, and H. erecta is reinstated here)

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Torres Strait, also Indian Ocean, W and central Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth intertidal waters–46 m.

 

General References

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. (misidentified as Dysidea (Dysideopsis))

 

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
		12-Feb-2010	(import)