Species Psammocinia halmiformis (Lendenfeld, 1888)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hircinia halmiformis Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [183] [type series composite].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM G8885 dry (WA, figured in Bergquist, 1980, fig. 9a, NMV photos 4/4,5 - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
  Paralectotype(s) AM AM Z496 3 specimens, wet (NMV photos 19/17,18 - egaz), NSW [33°00'S 146°00'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.356 dry (figured in Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. pl. 27 fig. 9, NMV photos 54/30,31, =AM G3776 slide - egaz), WA [25°00'S 122°00'E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

General References

Cook, S. De, & Bergquist, P.R. 1998. Revision of the genus Psammocinia (Porifera: Demospongiae: Dictyoceratida), with six new species from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 32: 399-426 [404] (revision)

Poeppe, J., Sutcliffe, P, Hooper, J.N.A., Woerheide, G. & Erpenbeck, D. 2010. CO I Barcoding Reveals New Clades and Radiation Patterns of Indo-Pacific Sponges of the Family Irciniidae (Demospongiae: Dictyoceratida). PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science) 5(4): e9950. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009950

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