Species Pseudoceratina durissima Carter, 1885

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pseudoceratina durissima Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 15: 196-222 [204] [two types are mentioned in the original description: one ex J.B. Wilson Collection, the other transferred from Aplysina purpurea: 1881 (Carter, H.J. 1881. Contributions to our knowledge of the Spongida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 8: 101–112, 118–120, 241–259 pl. 9, part: pl. 9 fig. 2 only). Carter's ms catalogue of identified J.B. Wilson specimens lists three dry specimens; four dry J.B. Wilson specimens with Carter's labels are now in the BMNH; BMNH 1883.4.12.48 is doubtful as 'holotype' (or lectotype), not being part of the J.B. Wilson Collection examined by Carter, and not matching the measurements in the original description].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.260 ('Ann. v. XV, p. 204', possibly the specimens originally mentioned), 34 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC (SW Australia); BMNH 1886.12.15.261 (NMV photos 52/14,15); BMNH 1886.12.15.360; BMNH 1886.12.15.86 originally wet (recorded depth 32 m), Port Phillip Heads; BMNH 1877.5.21.1883 (figured Carter 1881, pl. 9 fig. 2), SW Australia; BMNH 1883.4.12.48 wet, slide, (not collated with any particular specimen); AM G2820 slide (not collated with any particular specimen).
• Aplysina laevis Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 15: 196-222 [204].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Port Phillip Heads, VIC.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [156]

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Port Phillip Heads, S of Warrnambool, and Howell's Point.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 10–35 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. [45]

 

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
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