Species Mycale (Arenochalina) mirabilis (Lendenfeld, 1887)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Arenochalina mirabilis Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [821].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1886.8.27.587 dry (NMV photo 45/20, =AM G3538 slide), Torres Strait, QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM Z626 No. 136 wet (NMV photos 22/18–20), Port Jackson; BMNH 1886.8.27.381 wet (depository uncertain, as (Chalinocinia) –382 slide =AM G3395 slide), Port Jackson.

  Secondary source:

   Whitelegge, T. 1901. Report on sponges from the coastal beaches of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 4: 55-118 pls 10-15 [76] (paratypes as doubtful syntypes).
• Esperella spongiosa 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 [15].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NMV G2430 wet (=BMNH 1902.10.18.240 slide), inside and outside Port Phillip Heads, VIC; NMV G2431 wet (=BMNH 1902.10.18.31 slide), inside and outside Port Phillip Heads, VIC; NMV G2432 wet (=BMNH 1902.10.18.241 slide), inside and outside Port Phillip Heads, VIC; NMV G2433 wet (=AM G2671 slide), inside and outside Port Phillip Heads, VIC; NMV G2434 (=BMNH 1902.10.18.242 slide), inside and outside Port Phillip Heads, VIC; NMV G2435 wet (=BMNH 1902.10.18.243 slide), inside and outside Port Phillip Heads, VIC; NMV G2437 dry (=BMNH 1902.10.18.244 slide), inside and outside Port Phillip Heads, VIC; NMV G2438 wet (=BMNH 1902.10.18.245 slide), inside and outside Port Phillip Heads, VIC; NMV G2439 wet (=BMNH 1902.10.18.30 slide), inside and outside Port Phillip Heads, VIC; NMV G2440–9 wet (=BMNH 1902.10.18.246–56 slide), inside and outside Port Phillip Heads, VIC; NMV G2451 dry (=BMNH 1902.10.18.257 slide), inside and outside Port Phillip Heads, VIC; NMV G2450 dry (BMNH 1902.10.18.253 slide), inside and outside Port Phillip Heads, VIC.

  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 1,5,9].

  Secondary source:

   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 [105].
• Mycale imperfecta Baer, L. 1906. Silicispongien von Sansibar, Kapstadt und Papeete. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 72: 1-32 pls 1-5 [20].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB Sander Collection, Zanzibar.
• Mycale fistulata 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). [292].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMH, 4.5–5 m, ca. 9 km S of Denham and 3 m, ca. 4.5 km NW of Denham, Shark Bay, WA; ZMB 4398 3 specimens, 6 slides, 4.5–5 m, ca. 9 km S of Denham and 3 m, ca. 4.5 km NW of Denham, Shark Bay, WA.
• Mycale fistulata macrochela 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). [294].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMH 2 specimens, 9 m, entrance to South Passage, Shark Bay, WA; ZMB 4399, 9 m, entrance to South Passage, Shark Bay, WA.
• Mycale tylostrongyla Pulitzer-Finali, G. 1982. Some new or little-known sponges from the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Bollettino dei Musei e degli Instituti Biologici della Università di Genova 48–49(1980–1982): 87-141 [102].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG 46936 wet, Heron Is., Great Barrier Reef.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [84]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Torres Strait, Heron Is., Tuggarah Beach?, Port Jackson?, Shoalhaven Bight?, Seven Mile Beach?, Port Phillip Heads, Shark Bay, Deal Is., Great Australian Bight; and also Indian Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 3–38 m.

 

General References

Barrow, R.A., Murray, L.M., Lim, T.K., Capon, R.J. 1996. Mirabilins (A-F): new alkaloids from a southern Australian marine sponge, Arenochalina mirabilis. Australian Journal of Chemistry 49: 767-773 [767]

Sorokin, S.J., Laperousaz, T.C.D. & Collings, G.J. 2008. Investigator Group Expedition 2006: Sponges (Porifera). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 132(2): 163-172 [167]

 

History of changes

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