Species Spheciospongia purpurea (Lamarck, 1815)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Alcyonium purpureum 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 [332].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHN Paris LBIM DT649 3 fragments, Australian seas (as mers de la Nouvelle Hollande); BMNH probable fragment of type, Australian seas (as mers de la Nouvelle Hollande); BMNH fragment of type (not found), Australian seas (as mers de la Nouvelle Hollande); BMNH 1954.3.9.467 slide, Australian seas (as mers de la Nouvelle Hollande); BMNH 1954.3.9.498 slide, Australian seas (as mers de la Nouvelle Hollande); BMNH 1877.5.21.1269 3 slides (2/26) (unregistered MLB 132, ex MNHN 2/26), Australian seas (as mers de la Nouvelle Hollande).
• Suberites wilsoni Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 15: 107-117 [113].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1886.12.15.107 wet (=AM G2743 slide), Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.108 5 specimens, wet (NMV photo 34/2); BMNH 1886.12.15.253 dry (=AM G2932 slide); BMNH 1886.12.15.254 dry (NMV photo 40/30); BMNH 1886.12.15.255 dry (NMV photos 40/31); BMNH 1884.10.10.3 dry (NMV photo 40/27,28); BMNH 1886.12.15.1071–108a–253a–255a 5 slides 2/26 (NMV photo 40/27,28).
• Spirastrella bonneti Topsent, E. 1906. Les Clavulides purpurines. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 12: 570-575 [574].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHN Paris, Geelong, VIC [38°09'S 144°21'E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Topsent, E. 1918. Eponges de San Thomé. Essai sur les genres Spirastrella, Donatia et Chondrilla. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 57: 535-618 29 figs [546, 553]

 

Distribution

States

Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cape Leewin, Great Australian Bight, Port Phillip Heads, Geelong, and also Indo-Malayan region (?).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 323 m.

 

General References

Alexander, W.B. 1916. History of zoology in Western Australia. Part II. 1791–1829. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 1(1914–1915): 83-149 pl. 15 [90] (possibly type locality of Alcyonium purpureum Lamarck, 1815)

Carter, H.J. 1882. Some sponges from the West Indies and Acapulco in the Liverpool Free Museum described, with general and classificatory remarks. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 9: 266-301, 346-368 pls 11-12 [352]

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]

Sorokin, S.J., Currie, D.R. & Ward, T.M. 2005. Sponges of the Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Benthic Protection Zone). SARDI Research Report Series Adelaide : SARDI Aquatic Sciences Publication No RD04/0170 Part 65 pp. 1-92. [17]

Vosmaer, G.C.J. 1911. The Porifera of the Siboga-Expedition. II. The genus Spirastrella. In Weber, M.W.C. (ed.). Siboga Expéditie Monographie 6A: 1-69 pls 1-14 [7, 34] (on types of Alcyonium purpureum Lamarck, 1815)

 

History of changes

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