Species Phakellia stipitata (Carter, 1881)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acanthella stipitata Carter, H.J. 1881. Supplementary report on specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar, together with others from the sea in the vicinity of the Basse Rocks and from Bass's Straits respectively, presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt. H. Cawne Warren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 7: 361-385 pl. 18 [380] [excluded from Acanthella by Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Science Reports of the Geat Barrier Reef Expedition 4: 513–621 pls 1–2 (565) and Bergquist, P.R. 1970. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 2 (Axinellida and Halichondrida). (Mem. N.Z. Oceanogr. Inst. 51). Bulletin of the N.Z. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 197: 1–85 20 pls 3 figs (18), senior homonym of Acanthella stipitata Dendy, 1897 (=Phakellia dendyi Bergquist, 1970)].

  Type data:

   Neotype QM G300874 (BMNH holotype destroyed, S. Stone, personal communication - egaz), Port Phillip, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].

Distribution

States

Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

History of changes