Species Lissodendoryx (Lissodendoryx) isodictyalis (Carter, 1882)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halichondria isodictyalis Carter, H.J. 1882. Some sponges from the West Indies and Acapulco in the Liverpool Free Museum described, with general and classificatory remarks. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 9: 266-301, 346-368 pls 11-12 [285].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) LFM sp.57, sp.58 2 specimens, Puerto Cabello, Venezuela; Long Cay Is., Bahamas; Nassau; harbour of Acapulco, Pacific Coast of Mexico; LFM sp.62–64 wet, Puerto Cabello; LFM sp.66 wet, Puerto Cabello; LFM sp.73 wet, Puerto Cabello; LFM sp.113 wet, Nassau.

  Secondary source:

   Wiedenmayer, F. 1977. Shallow-water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel : Birkhäuser (Experientia Suppl. 28) 287 pp. 43 pls. [258].
• Tedania leptoderma Topsent, E. 1889. Quelques Spongiaires du Banc de Campêche et de la Pointe-à-Pître. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 2: 30-52 [30].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHN unknown wet, Banc de Campêche.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hechtel, G.J. 1965. A systematic study of the Demospongiae of Port Royal, Jamaica. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 20: i-iv 1-103 8 pls [38]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

SE coast, Bass Strait, NSW, VIC; Tuggerah Beach, Port Phillip Bay, Sorrento Jetty, Lorne, also amphi-Atlantic (N-temperate and tropical), Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, Japan, New Zealand and E Pacific Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth intertidal waters–40 m (91 m?), mostly intertidal to subtidal, found in communities on wharf pilings.

 

General References

Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [98]

 

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)