• Prosuberites Topsent, E. 1893. Nouvelle série de diagnoses d'Eponges de Roscoff et de Banyuls. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 1(1893, Notes Rev): xxxiii-xliii [xlii].

  Type species:

   Prosuberites longispina Topsent, 1893 by subsequent designation, see Burton, M. 1930. Additions to the sponge fauna of the Gulf of Manaar. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 5: 665-676 [675].

Distribution

States

Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Amphi-Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Japan, central and E Pacific Ocean.

IMCRA

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

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Thinly encrusting sponges with hispid surface. Skeleton consisting of single, long, tylostyles oriented perpendicularly to the substrate, heads embedded in a basal plate of spongin. Spicules tylostyles of variable size, but no distinctly localised size categories. A dozen or more species, distributed over most ocean regions.

ID Keys

See Family Suberitidae Diagnosis.

History of changes

• Alcyonium epiphytum Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1815. Suites des polypiers empâtés. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 1: 162-168, 331-340 [163].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHN Paris LBIM DT658 dry, 'probably American Seas', in error for Australia.
  Paratype(s) MNHN Paris LBIM DT3421 dry.

  Type locality references:

  Topsent, E. 1933. Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Fin. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 6 10: 1-60 5 figs pls 1-3 [34].

  Secondary source:

   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. [465]; Topsent, E. 1933. Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Fin. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 6 10: 1-60 5 figs pls 1-3 [34].
• Suberites parasitica Carter, H.J. 1886. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 17: 40-53, 112-127 [119].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1886.12.15.110 wet (NMV photo 38/8), Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wiedenmayer, F. 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] [406]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Port Curtis, Port Phillip Heads, also amphi-Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea.

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 0.5–748 m.

History of changes