Species Mycale (Grapelia) australis (Gray, 1867)
- Grapelia australis Gray, J.E. 1867. Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the description of some new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 492-558 pls 27-28 [534] [for
Hymeniacidon sp. Bowerbank, 1864, Bowerbank, J.S. 1864. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. London : Ray Society Vol. 1 290 pp. 37 pls. [249, fig. 135].Type data:
Status unknown, BMNH slides, WA. - Esperia parasitica Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 15: 107-117 [108].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1886.12.15.467 dry, with separate fragment (NMV photos 46/30–32, =AM G2930 slide), Port Phillip Heads, VIC. - [Pseudoesperia enigmatica] Carter, H.J. 1886. Supplement to the descriptions of Mr. J. Bracebridge Wilson's Australian sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 18: 445-466 pl. 10 [455] [unjustified replacement name for
Esperia parasitica Carter, 1885]. - Esperella ancorina Whitelegge, T. 1906. Sponges. Part I. In Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. Thetis off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4: 453-484 pls 43-44 [466].
Type data:
Holotype AM G4319 dry (NMV photo 1/3), 37–45 m, off Botany Bay, NSW. - Mycale parasitica arenosa Hentschel, E. 1911. Tetraxonida. pp. 279-393, 54 figs 2. Teil. in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 3 (10). [311].
Type data:
Holotype ZMH, 3.5–14 m, Champion Bay, Geraldton, WA. - Pseudoesperia carteri Dendy, A. & Frederick, L.M. 1924. On a collection of sponges from the Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology Zool. 35: 477-519 pls 25-26 [501].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1925 11.1.280 wet, (Wooded Isle), Houtman Abrolhos (as Albrolhos Ils), WA.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Vacelet, J., Vasseur, P. & Lévi, C. 1976. Spongiaires de la pente externe des récifs coralliens de Tuléar (Sud-Ouest de Madagascar). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] ns A 49: 1-116 78 figs pls 1-10 [51]
- van Soest, R.W.M. & Hajdu, E. 2002. Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. pp. 669-690 in Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera: A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 1. [680]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Botany Bay, Port Phillip Heads, Westernport Bay, Maria Is., Champion Bay,Stockyard Point, Houtman Abrolhos, and also Indian Ocean.
IMCRA
Central Western Shelf Transition (28), 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), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)
Ecological Descriptors
Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.
Extra Ecological Information
Depth 3.5–41 m.
General References
Capon, R.J. & MacLeod, J.K. 1985. Structural and stereochemical studies on marine norterpene cyclic peroxides. Tetrahedron Letters 41(16): 3391-3404
Fromont, J. 1999. Demosponges of the Houtman Abrolhos. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 175-184 [180] (Listed in this article)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 29-Mar-2018 | 15-Dec-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 29-Mar-2018 | 13-Apr-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |