Species Mycale (Zygomycale) parishi (Bowerbank, 1875)
- Raphiodesma parishi Bowerbank, J.S. 1875. Contributions to a general history of the Spongiadae. Part vii. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1875: 281-296 [283].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH unregistered dry fragments and slides (=BMNH 1877.5.21.1359 slide), Strait of Malacca. - Esperia plumosa 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 [298].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1887.6.1.13, Mauritius, Indian Ocean. - Esperella ridleyi Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [211] [collective name, no nominate subspecies; one syntype (BMNH) as var. mollis ms, removed by Hallmann, E.F. 1914. A revision of the monaxonid species described as new in Lendenfeld's ‘Catalogue of the sponges in the Australian Museum’. Part 3. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 398–446 23 figs (402) as Echinochalina sp. aff. intermedia].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1887.1.24.40 wet (as var. mollis ms, WA, a rejected syntype without published subspecies name, =AM 93558 slide), locality unknown. - Esperella ridleyi intermedia Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [212].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM G9025 dry (NMV photos 6/35,36), locality unknown; BMNH 1887.1.24.39 wet (=AM G3559 slide), locality unknown. - Esperella ridleyi robusta Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [212].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM G9026 dry figured (NMV photos 7/8,9), WA; BMNH 1887.4.27/3 wet, WA. - Mycale isochela 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). [297].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMH, 7–11 m, Eastern Channel between Eagle Bluff and Baba Head, Freycinet Estuary, Shark Bay, WA; southern beach, Fremantle, WA; ZMB 4403 4 specimens, 7–11 m, Eastern Channel between Eagle Bluff and Baba Head, Freycinet Estuary, Shark Bay, WA; southern beach, Fremantle, WA. - Mycale pectinicola 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). [299].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMH, 3.5–11 m, E of Middle Flat, Freycinet Reach, 11–16 m, W of Middle Flat to N Point of Heirisson Prong and 11–2.5 m NNE of N Point of Heirisson Prong, Shark Bay, WA; WAM 7073, 3.5–11 m, E of Middle Flat, Freycinet Reach, 11–16 m, W of Middle Flat to N Point of Heirisson Prong and 11–2.5 m NNE of N Point of Heirisson Prong, Shark Bay, WA; ZMB 4404 2 specimens, 3.5–11 m, E of Middle Flat, Freycinet Reach, 11–16 m, W of Middle Flat to N Point of Heirisson Prong and 11–2.5 m NNE of N Point of Heirisson Prong, Shark Bay, WA.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Burton, M. & Rao, H.S. 1932. Report on the shallow-water marine sponges in the collections of the Indian Museum, Part I. Records of the Indian Museum 34: 299-356 16 figs pl. 18 [328]
- Lévi, C. 1956. Spongiaires des côtes de Madagascar. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar A 10: 1-23 [14]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Fremantle, Houtman Abrolhos, Shark Bay, Darwin, Port Jackson, also S Africa, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region and central Pacific Ocean.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), 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 intertidal waters–16 m.
General References
Fromont, J. 1999. Demosponges of the Houtman Abrolhos. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 175-184 [180] (Listed in this article)
Hooper, J.N.A., Capon, R.J., Keenan, C.P., Parry, D.L. & Smit, N. 1992. Chemotaxonomy of marine sponges: families Microcionidae, Raspailiidae and Axinellidae, and their relationships with other families in the orders Poecilosclerida and Axinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6(2): 261-301 [263] (as
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