Species Polymastia fusca Bergquist, 1961

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• Polymastia fusca Bergquist, P.R. 1961. A collection of Porifera from northern New Zealand, with descriptions of seventeen new species. Pacific Science 15: 33-48 18 figs [43].

  Type data:

   Holotype MONZ Por.13 wet, Burgess Bay, Kawau Is., New Zealand [36°25'55"S 174°53'02"E].

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Stockyard Point.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth intertidal to 6 m; vertical rock faces, rocky overhangs, usually shaded.

 

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 Unpublished M.Sc.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. [12]

Kelly-Borges, M. & Bergquist, P.R. 1997. Revision of southwest Pacific Polymastiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with descriptions of new species of Polymastia Bowerbank, Tylexocladus Topsent, and Acanthopolymastia gen.nov. from New Zealand and the Norfolk Ridge, New Caledonia. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 31: 367-402 [370]

 

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)