Species Spongia (Spongia) conifera (Lendenfeld, 1885)

Museums

Regional Maps

• [Spongia (officinalis) tubulifera pertusa] Hyatt, A. 1877. A revision of the North American Poriferae, with remarks upon foreign species. Part 2. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 2: 481-554 pls 15-17 [512] [junior homonym of Spongia pertusa Esper, 1794].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (coord for Habana - egaz), Nassau, Bahamas; Habana, Cuba; Fernando do Noronha, Brazil [25°04'01"N 77°20'23"W].
• Euspongia conifera Lendenfeld, R. von 1885. A monograph of the Australian sponges. Part 6. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 481-553 pls 36-38 [500].

  Type data:

   Holotype Torres Strait [10°25'S 142°10'E].

  Secondary source:

   Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. [248].
• Euspongia trincomalensis Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. Die Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse der Hornschwämme. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 4: 1-93 [32] [in key; described in Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. (260)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH dry (not found, labelled 'Paraspongia trincomalensis' by Carter - egaz), Galle and Trincomalee, Sri Lanka [6°01'58"N 80°13'04"E and 8°34'08"N 81°13'58"E]; ZMB 10431 slide, no locality.
• Euspongia officinalis arabica Keller, C. 1889. Die Spongienfauna des rothen Meeres (1. Hälfte). Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 48: 311-405 pls 20-25 [342].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB 166 dry (coord for Red Sea - egaz), Suakin, Massaua and Djebel Zeit, Red Sea [22°32'56"N 37°06'43"E].
• Euspongia officinalis ceylonensis Dendy, A. 1905. Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. 57-246 pls 1-16 in Herdman, W.A. (ed.). Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. London : Royal Society Vol. 3 Suppl. 18. [211].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1907.2.1.94 wet (egaz), Trincomalee, Sri Lanka [8°34'08"N 81°13'58"E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wiedenmayer, F. 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] [392] (mostly after Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Science Reports of the Geat Barrier Reef Expedition 4: 513–621 pls 1–2 [577], 'form alpha')

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Torres Strait, Mangrove Park, Low Isles, Batt Reef, West Indian region?, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region and W Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Shallow water, reefs.

 

General References

Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [576] (misidentified as Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)

Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. (Euspongia conifera Lendenfeld, 1885 treated as synonym of Euspongia irregularis var. pertusa)

van Soest, R.W.M. 1978. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part. I. Keratosa. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 56(179): 1-94 30 figs 15 pls [12] (for synonymy, description and distribution of Spongia [pertusa] Hyatt)

 

History of changes

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