Species Clathria (Clathria) striata Whitelegge, 1907

Museums

Regional Maps

• Clathria striata Whitelegge, T. 1907. Sponges. Part I (Addenda). Part 2. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4: 487-515 pls 45-46 [495].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM G4344 dry (in part only, NMV photos 8/2,3 - egaz), 98 m, off Coogee, NSW [31°32'S 142°10'E].
  Paralectotype(s) AM Z823A dry, 2 specimens; G4344 in part, wet (NMV photos 14/6–9).
• Rhaphidophlus tenebratus Whitelegge, T. 1907. Sponges. Part I (Addenda). Part 2. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4: 487-515 pls 45-46 [501].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM G4336 wet (NMV photo 8/21/22 - egaz), 108 m, off Wollongong, NSW [33°00'S 146°00'E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hooper, J.N.A. 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] [261]

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 36–99 m; rock substrate.

General References

Hooper, J.N.A. 1996. Revision of Microcionidae (Porifera: Poecilosclerida: Demospongiae), with description of Australian species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 40: 1-626 [Date published 01/06/1996] [156]

Roberts, D.E., Cummins, S.P., Davis, A.R. & Pangway, C. 1999. Evidence for symbiotic algae in sponges from temperate coastal reefs in New South Wales, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 493-498 [495] (Listed in this article)

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]

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