Species Phyllospongia foliascens (Pallas, 1766)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spongia foliascens Pallas, P.S. 1766. Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succinctas descriptiones cum selectis auctorum synonymis. Hagae-comitum : P. van Cleef 45 pp. [395] [the neotype, designated by Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Science Reports of the Geat Barrier Reef Expedition 4: 513–621 pls 1–2 [572] is invalid under ICZN Article 75d(3)].

  Type data:

   Neotype NHM-UK 1925.11.1.411, Coin Peros, Indian Ocean [5°21.430’S, 71°51.688’E].
  Status unknown, BMNH 1925.11.1.411 (invalid neotype - Indonesia), Indian Ocean (?) and East Indies, particularly Ambon (Indonesia) for Rumpf, 1705 [3°50'39"S 137°40'49"E].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2.

  Secondary source:

   Wiedenmayer, F. 1977. Shallow-water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel : Birkhäuser (Experientia Suppl. 28) 287 pp. 43 pls. [64] (for Pallas, 1766).
• Spongia otahitica Esper, E.J.C. 1794. Fortsetzungen der Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet, nebst Beschreibungen. Nürnberg : Raspe Vol. 1 230 pp. 104 pls. [209] [for the unnamed sponges from 'Otaheite' in Ellis, J. & Solander, D. 1786. The Natural History of many curious and uncommon Zoophytes collected from various Parts of the Globe. London : B. White & Son xii 206 pp. 63 pls. (pl. 59 figs 1–3–copied by Esper)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1872.9.25.1 dry (NMV photos 54/23,24 - egaz), Tahiti [17°35'45"S 149°30'39"W].
• Spongia penicillata Esper, E.J.C. 1794. Fortsetzungen der Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet, nebst Beschreibungen. Nürnberg : Raspe Vol. 1 230 pp. 104 pls. [250] [holotype redescribed in Topsent, E. 1920. Sur quelques Eponges du Cabinet de J. Hermann décrites et figurées par Esper en 1794. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 45: 314–327 (317)].

  Type data:

   Holotype MZUS Hermann Collection (egaz), Indian Ocean [34°35'56"S 75°28'58"E].

  Secondary source:

   Topsent, E. 1920. Sur quelques Eponges du Cabinet de J. Hermann décrites et figurées par Esper en 1794. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 45: 314-327 [317].
• Spongia fissurata Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de Monet 1814. Sur les polypiers empâtés. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 20: 294-312, 370-386, 432-458 [382].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHN Paris LBIM DT339, Southern Seas (Péron and Lesueur Collection, hence Australia probable).
  Paralectotype(s) MNHN Paris LBIM DT3395; MNHN Paris LBIM DT3396.

  Secondary source:

   Topsent, E. 1930. Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 6 5: 1-56 4 figs pls 1-4 [42].
• Cacospongia poculum Selenka, E. 1867. Ueber einige neue Schwämme aus der Südsee. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 17: 565-571 pl. 35 [567].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, Port Phillip Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
• Halispongia ventriculoides Bowerbank, J.S. 1874. Contributions to a general history of the Spongiadae. Part vi. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874: 298-305 pls 46-47 [301].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1931.6.25.17 dry (egaz), Tahiti [17°35'45"S 149°30'39"W]; BMNH 1931.6.25.11 dry (egaz), Tahiti [17°35'45"S 149°30'39"W].
• Halispongia mantelli Bowerbank, J.S. 1874. Contributions to a general history of the Spongiadae. Part vi. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874: 298-305 pls 46-47 [303].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1931.6.25.12 dry, South Seas [no coords available egaz].
• Halispongia stellifera Bowerbank, J.S. 1877. Description of five new species of sponges discovered by Dr. A.B. Meyer on the Philippine Islands and New Guinea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 456-464 [460].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1931.6.25.13 dry (egaz - Indonesia), Teluk Sarera (as Geelvink Bay), Irian Jaya, Indonesia [3°50'39"S 137°40'49"E].
• Carteriospongia vermifera Hyatt, A. 1877. A revision of the North American Poriferae, with remarks upon foreign species. Part 2. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 2: 481-554 pls 15-17 [542].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (MCZ?), Phillip Is., VIC [38°29'S 145°14'E].
• Phyllospongia elegans Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [116] [homonym of Carteriospongia elegans Burton, 1934].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM B5489 dry (NMV photos 3/13,14 - egaz), East coast; WA; Port Jackson NSW [27°31'53"S 119°08'00"E, 33°51'S 151°15'E]; ZMB 2285 3 slides; ZMB 1187 3 slides; ZMB 1188 3 slides (egaz), Port Jackson [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.40 dry (=AM G3716 slide); ZMB 10459 slide; BMNH 1893.3.4.26 dry; BMNH 1893.3.4.42 dry; BMNH 1893.3.4.69 dry.
• Phyllospongia mantelli reticulata Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. [192] [proposed as a variety].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1931.6.25.15 dry, locality unknown.
• Phyllospongia lekanis Laubenfels, M.W. de 1954. The sponges of the West-Central Pacific. Oregon State Monographs. Studies in Zoology 7: 1-306 pls 1-12 [15].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 23109, 2 m, Koror, Palau Archipelago, Micronesia [no coords available egaz].
• Spongia lamellosa Esper, E.J.C. 1794. Fortsetzungen der Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet, nebst Beschreibungen. Nürnberg : Raspe Vol. 1 230 pp. 104 pls. [redescribed in Ehlers, E. 1870. Die Esper'schen Spongien in der zoologischen Sammlung der K. Universität Erlangen. Erlangen : E.T. Jacob pp. 36. (15)].

  Type data:

   Neotype NHM-UK 1881.10.21.273.
  Status unknown, 'Mediterranean' (erroneous, based on millepores around base, see Ehlers (1870)).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Bergquist, P.R., Ayling, A.M. & Wilkinson, C.R. 1988. Foliose Dictyoceratida of the Australian Great Barrier Reef. 1. Taxonomy and Phylogenetic relationships. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli I: Marine Ecology 9(4): 291-320.

  Type locality references:

  Ehlers, E. 1870. Die Esper'schen Spongien in der zoologischen Sammlung der K. Universität Erlangen. Erlangen : E.T. Jacob 36 pp. [15].
• Spongia polyphylla Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de Monet 1814. Sur les polypiers empâtés. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 20: 294-312, 370-386, 432-458 [441].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHN Paris LBIM DT575, Indian Ocean [?].
  Paratype(s) MNHN Paris LBIM DT3359.

  Secondary source:

   Topsent, E. 1932. Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Deuxième partie. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 6 8: 61-124 2 figs pls 1-6 [94].
• Mauricea lacinulosa Carter, H.J. 1877. On a melobesian form of Foraminifera (Gypsina melobesioides, mihi); and further observations on Carpenteria monticularis. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 20: 172-176 [174].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1883.1.25.1 dry (NMV photos 52/4,5 - egaz), Mauritius, Indian Ocean [20°31'51"S 57°47'59"E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. [196]
• Topsent, E. 1920. Sur quelques Eponges du Cabinet de J. Hermann décrites et figurées par Esper en 1794. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 45: 314-327 [317] (for Spongia penicillata Esper, 1799)
• Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [573]
• Bergquist, P.R. 1965. The sponges of Micronesia, Part I. The Palau Archipelago. Pacific Science 19: 123-204 34 figs [131]
• Bergquist, P.R., Ayling, A.M. & Wilkinson, C.R. 1988. Foliose Dictyoceratida of the Australian Great Barrier Reef. 1. Taxonomy and Phylogenetic relationships. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli I: Marine Ecology 9(4): 291-320 [297]
• Wahab, M.A.A., Wilson, N.G., Prada, D., Gomez, O. & Fromont, J. 2020. Molecular and morphological assessment of tropical sponges in the subfamily Phyllospongiinae, with the descriptions of two new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 1–37

 

Generic Combinations

• Phyllospongia foliascens (Pallas, 1766). —
  Wahab, M.A.A., Wilson, N.G., Prada, D., Gomez, O. & Fromont, J. 2020. Molecular and morphological assessment of tropical sponges in the subfamily Phyllospongiinae, with the descriptions of two new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 1–37
• Carteriospongia foliascens (Pallas, 1766). —
  Bergquist, P.R. 1980. A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida (Class Demospongiae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 7: 443-503 figs 1-25 pls

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Torres Strait, Thursday Is., Wednesday Is., Cape York, Low Isles, Batt Reef, Port Molle, Elizabeth Reef, Bird Is., Heron Is., Green Is., Shark Is., Port Jackson, Coogee Bay, Phillip Is., Port Phillip Bay, also Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Japan, Indo-Malayan region, W and central Pacific. Also North-West Australian Shelf

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth shallow water–15 m, reefs.

 

General References

Bergquist, P.R., Ayling, A.M. & Wilkinson, C.R. 1988. Foliose Dictyoceratida of the Australian Great Barrier Reef. 1. Taxonomy and Phylogenetic relationships. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli I: Marine Ecology 9(4): 291-320 [297]

Hooper, J.N.A., Kennedy, J.A., List-Armitage, S.E., Cook, S.D. & Quinn, R. 1999. Biodiversity, species composition and distribution of marine sponges in Northeast Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 263-274 [264] (Listed in this article)

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 [259] (Listed in this article)

Hyatt, A. 1877. A revision of the North American Poriferae, with remarks upon foreign species. Part 2. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 2: 481-554 pls 15-17

Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. [196, 198]

Ridley, S.O. 1884. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. Alert, 1881–1882. Spongiida. (Part 1, Australian sponges). London : British Museum (Natural History) 366-482, pls 39-43.

Wiedenmayer, F. 1977. Shallow-water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel : Birkhäuser (Experientia Suppl. 28) 287 pp. 43 pls. [64] (for the destruction of Pallas' collection and the status of synonyms Pallas cited; for pre-Linnaean synonyms of Clusius (1605) and Rumpf (1705)

Wilkinson, C.R. 1988. Foliose Dictyoceratida of the Australian Great Barrier Reef. II. Ecology and distribution of these prevalent sponges. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli I: Marine Ecology 9(4): 321-328 [321]

Wilkinson, C.R., Summons, R. & Evans, E. 1999. Nitrogen fixation in symbiotic marine sponges: ecological significance and difficulties in detection. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 667-674 [669] (Listed in this article)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-Mar-2022	DEMOSPONGIAE Sollas, 1885	10-Aug-2021	MODIFIED
29-Mar-2018	DEMOSPONGIAE Sollas, 1885	17-Sep-2014	MODIFIED	ABRS
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		02-May-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)