Species Lissodendoryx (Lissodendoryx) aspera (Bowerbank, 1875)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Crella schmidti 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. [432].

  Type data:

   Holotype 1881.10.23.329a wet, 0–9 m, Port Jackson.
• Damiria australiensis Dendy, A. 1896. Catalogue of non-calcareous sponges collected by J. Bracebridge Wilson, Esq., M.A., in the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads. Part 2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 8: 14-51 [28].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NMV G2296 wet (=BMNH 1902.10.18.292 slide), 5–22 m, inside Port Phillip Heads, VIC (Sorrento Reef); NMV G2297 wet (=BMNH 1902.10.18.293 slide), 5–22 m, inside Port Phillip Heads, VIC (Sorrento Reef); NMV G2298 wet (=BMNH 1902.10.18.294 slide), 5–22 m, inside Port Phillip Heads, VIC (Sorrento Reef); NMV G2299 wet (=AM 2680 slide), 5–22 m, inside Port Phillip Heads, VIC (Sorrento Reef); NMV G2300 wet (=BMNH 1902.10.18.42 slide), 5–22 m, inside Port Phillip Heads, VIC (Sorrento Reef); NMV G2301–2307 all wet (=BMNH 1902.10.18.295–301 slides), 5–22 m, inside Port Phillip Heads, VIC (Sorrento Reef); NMV 2308–2311 wet (=BMNH 1902.10.18.302–305 slides), 5–22 m, inside Port Phillip Heads, VIC (Sorrento Reef).

  Type locality references:

  Wilson, J. Bracebridge 1895. List of dredging stations at and near Port Phillip Heads. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 7: 261-263 [stations 9, 10, 14, 15].
• Damiriana hawaiiana Laubenfels, M.W. de 1950. The sponges of Kaneohe Bay, Oahu. Pacific Science 4(1): 3-36 [14].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 22737 wet, shallow water, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.
  Paratype(s) USNM 22737 wet, Hawaii.
• Halichondria aspera Bowerbank, J.S. 1875. Contributions to a general history of the Spongiadae. Part vii. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1875: 281-296 [287].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH unknown dry, Straits of Malacca.
• Zetekispongia zonea Laubenfels, M.W. de 1936. A discussion of the sponge fauna of the Dry Tortugas in particular, and the West Indies in general, with material for a revision of the families and orders of the Porifera. (Tortugas Lab. Paper No. 467). Publication of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Washington 30: 1-225 22 pls 1 map [446].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 22215 wet, Pacific coast of Panama.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Topsent, E. 1897. Spongiaires de la Baie d'Amboine. (Voyage de MM. M. Bedot et C. Pictet dans l'archipel Malais.). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 4: 421-487 pls 18-21 [455]
• Lévi, C. 1958. Résultats scientifiques des campagnes de la Calypso. Campagne 1951–1952 en Mer Rouge. Spongiaires de Mer Rouge recueillies par la Calypso (1951–1952). Annales de l'Institut Océanographie, Monaco & Paris ns 34: 3-46 [30]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

SE coast, Bass Strait, TAS coast, W coast, NSW, VIC, TAS, WA; Port Jackson, Port Phillip Heads, Sorrento Jetty, Blackman's Bay, Ingram Bay, Cockburn Sound, Port Royal, Houtman Abrolhos, also Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region and central Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 0–45 m.

 

General References

Ayling, A.L., Stone, S. & Smith, B.J. 1982. Catalogue of types of sponge species from Southern Australia described by Arthur Dendy. Reports of the National Museum of Victoria 1: 97-109 [101]

Carpay, M. 1986. The marine sponges of Tasmania. A checklist of a number of marine sponges, occurring along the Tasmanian coast. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis, Department of Bijzondere Dierkunde, Institute of Taxonomic Zoology, Amsterdam. pp. 1–77. [21]

Fromont, J. 1999. Demosponges of the Houtman Abrolhos. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 175-184 [180] (Listed as 'Waldoschmittia schmidti")

 

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)