Species Pione velans (Hentschel, 1909)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cliona velans Hentschel, E. 1909. Tetraxonida. 347-402 pls 22-23 1. Teil. in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 2 (21). [388].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH unknown wet, 9 m, entrance to South Passage, Shark Bay, WA [25°30'S 113°30'E].
  Paratype(s) ZMH 1477 wet; BMNH unregistered 2 slides (ex ZMH 1477, 1/102).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] (rejects synonymy of this species with Cliona vastifica Hancock, 1849, from Scotland, and Cliona concharum Thiele, 1898, from Japan)

 

Generic Combinations

• Pione velans (Hentschel, 1909). —
  Fromont, J., Craig, R., Rawlinson, L. & Alder, J. 2005. Excavating sponges that are destructive to farmed pearl oysters in Western and Northern Australia. Aquaculture Research 38(2): 150-162 [156]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Maria Is., Albany, Shark Bay, west and north coast of WA pearl oyster farms; also Arctic, amphi-Atlantic (Europe, N America, West Indian region), Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Japan, W and central Pacific Ocean.

Introduced from [country unknown] probably transported via pearl and/or edible oyster shell.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Euryhaline, eurythermal, depth 0–600 m.

 

General References

Fromont, J. 2003. Porifera (Sponges) in the Dampier Archipelago: Taxonomic affinities and biogeography. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Marine Biological Workshop. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Dampier, Western Australia. 405-417 pp. [408] (Listed as 'Pione' velans)

Fromont, J., Craig, R., Rawlinson, L. & Alder, J. 2005. Excavating sponges that are destructive to farmed pearl oysters in Western and Northern Australia. Aquaculture Research 38(2): 150-162 [156]

Hartman, W.D. 1958. Natural history of the marine sponges of southern New England. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 12: 1-155 pls 1-12 [107, 124]

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] [133] (removed from synonymy with Cliona vastifica Hancock, 1849)

Pomponi, S.A. 1979. Ultrastructure and cytochemistry of the etching area of boring sponges. pp. 317–323 in Lévi, C. & Boury-Esnault, N. (eds) Biologie des Spongiaires/Sponge biology. Colloques Int. Cent. Natl Rech. Scient. Vol. 291.

Rützler, K. & Stone, S.M. 1986. Discovery and significance of Albany Hancock's microscope preparations of excavating sponges (Porifera: Hadromerida: Clionidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 99(4): 658-675 [667]

Thiele, J. 1898. Studien über pazifische Spongien. I. Zoologica (New York) 24: 1-72 pls 1-8 [42, pl. 8 fig. 16] (description of Cliona concharum]; Topsent, E. 1900. Etude monographique des Spongiaires de France. III. Monaxonida (Hadromerina). Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 3 8: 1–331 pls 1–8 [56] (synonymy of Cliona concharum Thiele, 1898 with Cliona vastifica Hancock, 1849)

Topsent, E. 1932. Note sur les Clionides. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 74: 549-579 11 figs [561] (synonymy between Cliona vastifica Hancock, 1849 and Cliona velans Hentschel, 1909)

Vosmaer, G.C.J. 1932. [1932–1935]. The sponges of the Bay of Naples. Porifera Incalcaria. In Vosmaer-Röell, C.S. & Burton, M. (eds) Vol. 1 (1932–3), issued in 5 parts. Capita Zoologica 3: 1–456 pls 1–35. Vol. 2 (1933–5), issued in 5 parts. Capita Zoologica 5: 457–857 pls 36–71 (pls 43, 55 omitted). Also published separately in 3 vols (2 vols text, 875 pp., and atlas, 69 pls). The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff 1933–35. [402 in part] (synonymy of Cliona concharum Thiele, 1898 with Cliona vastifica Hancock, 1849, not Cliona margaritiferae Dendy, 1905)

 

History of changes

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29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
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