Species Phoriospongia rubra (Dendy, 1895)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stylotrichophora rubra Dendy, A. 1895. Catalogue of non-calcareous sponges collected by J. Bracebridge Wilson, Esq., M.A., in the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads. Part 1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 7: 232-260 [259].

  Type data:

   Holotype RN478 (specimen missing from NMV and BMNH), 38 m, outside Port Phillip Heads, VIC.
  Paratype(s) AM unregistered slide, tray 52.

  Type locality references:

  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].

 

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Outside Port Phillip Heads, and also W Pacific Ocean (Marshall Ils).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 5–36 m.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)