Species Neopetrosia pacifica (Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1988)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Xestospongia pacifica Kelly-Borges, M. & Bergquist, P.R. 1988. Sponges from Motupore Island, Papua New Guinea. Indo-Malayan Zoology 5: 121-159 [155].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM Z4999 (egaz), Buna Motu Reef, Bootless Bay, southern Papua New Guinea [6°52'44"S 145°57'39"E].

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, filter-feeder, sessile.

General References

Desqueyroux-Faundez, R. & Valentine, C. 2002. Family Petrosiidae Van Soest, 1980. pp. 906-917 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. [910] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Hooper, J.N.A., List-Armitage, S.E., Kennedy, J.A., Cook, S.D. & Valentine, C.A. 1999. Sponges of the Low Isles, Great Barrier Reef: an important scientific site, or a case of mistaken identity? Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 249-262 [257] (Listed in this article)

Hooper, J.N.A. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994] [329] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement rejects synonymy of this species with Xestospongia exigua Kirkpatrick, 1900 proposed by Fromont, J. 1991. Descriptions of species of the Petrosida (Porifera: Demospongiae) occurring in the tropical waters of the Great Barrier Reef. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 8(1): 73–96 [81])

Hooper, J.N.A. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994] [329] (rejected synonymy with Xestospongia exigua Kirkpatrick, 1900)

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