Species Callyspongia (Callyspongia) bilamellata (Lamarck, 1814)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spongia bilamellata 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 [484] [often misused by authors for Echinodictyum mesenterinum =Spongia bilamellata var. a, following the confusion by Ridley, S.O. & Duncan, P.M. 1881. On the genus Plocamia Schmidt, and on some other sponges of the order Echinonemata. With descriptions of two additional new species of Dirrhopalum. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 15: 476–497 pls 28–29 (493) of the latter with the typical variety; error partly clarified by Topsent, E. 1932. Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Deuxième partie. Arch. Mus. Natl Hist. Nat. Paris 6 8: 61–124 2 figs pls 1–6 (68), where Echinodictyum bilamellatum is wrongly used instead of Echinodictyum mesenterinum].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHN Paris LBIM DT602 (egaz), King Is., Bass Strait [39°50'S 144°00'E].
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1954.2.20.63 slide 3/59; MNHN Paris LBIM DT3383 fragment only.
• Euplacella mollissima Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [790].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1886.8.27.423 dry (=AM G3470 slide - egaz), Westernport Bay, VIC [38°22'S 145°20'E].
• Placochalina pedunculata dura Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [791].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM Z615 dry (NMV photos 6/12,13 - egaz for Pt Jackson), Port Jackson, NSW, Armstrong Bay, WA [33°51'S 151°15'E ?]; AM Z615 =A48 wet fragments of type (NMV photos 24/4–6, slide); BMNH 1886.8.27.561 dry (=AM G3471 slide); ZMB 2273 5 slides, Armstrong Bay, WA [no coords available].
• Placochalina pedunculata mollis Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [792].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1886.8.27.562 dry (=AM G3473 slide), south coast, Gulf St Vincent [35°00'S 138°05'E].
• Placochalina pedunculata poculum Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [792].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1886.8.27.564 dry (=AM G3472 slide - egaz), Port Jackson and Illawarra, NSW; Torres Strait, QLD; (Encounter Bay, SA [33°51'S 151°15'E and 37°04'S 142°42'E, 10°25'S 142°10'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.565 dry (NMV photo 43/24, =AM G3472 slide - egaz), Illawarra [37°04'S 142°42'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.563 dry (egaz), Torres Strait [10°25'S 142°10'E]; ZMB 2272 (egaz), Encounter Bay, SA [35°35'S 138°44'E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [242]
• Whitelegge, T. 1906. Sponges. Part I. In Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. Thetis off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4: 453-484 pls 43-44 [456]
• 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 [68]
• Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [598] (Euplacella mollissima Lendenfeld, 1887 and erroneous exclusion of Spongia bilamellata Lamarck 1814 based on misidentification of Spongia bilamellata (typical var.) by Ridley, S.O. 1881. Spongida. In Account of the zoological collections made during the survey of H.M.S. Alert in the Straits of Magellan and on the Coast of Patagonia. XI. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: 107–137, 140–141 pls 10–11)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

W coast, Great Barrier Reef, SE coast, S coast, QLD, NSW, SA, WA, TAS; Deal Is., Encounter Bay, Armstrong Bay, Black River Beach, Torres Strait, Illawarra, Tuggerah Beach, Bondi Beach, Coogee, off Wollongong, off Barrenjoey, Port Jackson, Westernport Bay, Port Phillip Heads and Gulf St Vincent.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 35–154 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. [33]

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. [56]

Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [106]

 

History of changes

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