Species Scopalina hapalia (Hooper, Cook, Hobbs & Kennedy, 1997)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hymeniacidon hapalia Hooper, J.N.A., Cook, S.D., Hobbs, L.J. & Kennedy, J.A. 1997. Australian Halichondriidae (Porifera: Demospongiae): I. Species from the Beagle Gulf. pp. 1-65 in Hanley, H.R., Caswell, G., Megirian, D. & Larson, H.K. (eds). The Marine Flora and Fauna of Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia. Proceedings of the Sixth International Marine Biology Workshop. Darwin : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 466 pp.

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM Z184 wet, Dudley Point Reef, East Point, Darwin, NT, intertidal, 13 September 1981, coll. J.N.A. Hooper & party [12˚25.01’S, 130˚48.01’E].
  Paratype(s) QM G303414 wet, N of South Shell I, Darwin Harbour, NT, 14 m depth, 25 September 1993, coll. J.N.A. Hooper & L.J. Hobbs [12˚29.1334’S, 130˚52.16’E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Scopalina hapalia (Hooper, Cook, Hobbs & Kennedy, 1997). —
  Alvarez, B. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the order Halichondrida (Porifera: Demospongiae) of northern Australia. Family Dictyonellidae. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 26: 13–36 [25]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Very common in the area of Darwin Harbour and Bynoe Harbour (Sahul Shelf province, Bonaparte Coast ecoregion), from the intertidal zone to 14 m. It is also found in the Eastern Coral Triangle (Southeast Papua New Guinea) (Alvarez & Hooper 2010).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, filter-feeder, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal to 14 m depth; rocky reef, mudflats, fringing coral reef and coral pinnacles.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018		31-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)