Species Spheciospongia papillosa (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spirastrella papillosa Ridley, S.O. & Dendy, A. 1886. Preliminary report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. Challenger. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 18: 325-351, 470-493 [491].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB fragment of type, 55–64 m, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1887.5.2.312 5 slides 2/23; BMNH 1891.10.3.104 slide 2/23.
• Spirastrella cunctatrix porcata Carter, H.J. 1886. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 17: 40-53, 112-127 [115].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1886.12.15.351 dry (NMV photo 40/5, =AM G2944 slide), Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
• Papillina panis Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [58] [error 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 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 263–315 1 fig. pls 15–24, part, not pl. 1 fig. 1 (=Cliona lutea Lendenfeld), not pl. 1 fig. 2 (=Spirastrella ramulosa Lendenfeld)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM Z1472 wet (NMV photo 30/0), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM Z1483 wet (NMV photo 30/1), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM Z1475 wet (NMV photos 22/3–6), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM 1476 wet (not found), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM Z1484 wet (NMV photo 30/2), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM Z1470 wet (NMV photos 30/3,4), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM Z1494 wet (NMV photos 22/16,17), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM G9106 wet (NMV photos 25/13–15), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.541 wet (=AM G3639 slide), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1886.12.13.7–15 wet, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; ZMB 2258 wet, 3 slides (depository uncertain), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1954.2.12.12–38 2 slides 92/23, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].

  Secondary source:

   Hallmann, E.F. 1914. A revision of the monaxonid species described as new in Lendenfeld's 'Catalogue of the sponges in the Australian Museum'. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39(Part 1): 263–315 1 fig. pls 15–24 [294].
• Spirastrella papillosa porosa Dendy, A. 1897. Catalogue of non-calcareous sponges collected by J. Bracebridge Wilson, Esq., M.A., in the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads. Part 3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 9: 230-259 [253] [Spirastrella cunctatrix: Carter, 1886, part].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV G2398 4 specimens, dry (=BMNH 1902.10.18.466 slide), 33–36 m, inside and outside Port Phillip Heads [38°07'S 144°48'E].

  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 [104].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dendy, A. 1897. Catalogue of non-calcareous sponges collected by J. Bracebridge Wilson, Esq., M.A., in the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads. Part 3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 9: 230-259 [235]
• Hallmann, E.F. 1914. A revision of the monaxonid species described as new in Lendenfeld's 'Catalogue of the sponges in the Australian Museum'. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39(Part 1): 263–315 1 fig. pls 15–24 [294]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Port Jackson, Port Phillip, Spencer Gulf, Great Australian Bight; and also W Pacific Ocean (Funafuti) (?).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), 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 14–81 m.

 

General References

Carpay, M. 1986. The marine sponges of Tasmania. A checklist of a number of marine sponges, occurring along the Tasmanian coast. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis, Department of Bijzondere Dierkunde, Institute of Taxonomic Zoology, Amsterdam. pp. 1–77. [15]

Nevalainen, T.J., Quinn, R.J. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2004. Phospholipase A2 in Porifera. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 137(B): 413-420 [415] (Listed in this article)

Sorokin, S., Fromont, J. & Currie, D. 2007. Demosponge biodiversity in the Benthic Protection Zone of the Great Australian Bight. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 132(2): 192-204 [195]

Sorokin, S.J., Currie, D.R. & Ward, T.M. 2005. Sponges of the Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Benthic Protection Zone). SARDI Research Report Series Adelaide : SARDI Aquatic Sciences Publication No RD04/0170 Part 65 pp. 1-92. [16]

Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [35]

 

History of changes

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