Species Callyspongia (Callyspongia) serpentina (Lamarck, 1814)

Museums

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• Spongia serpentina Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de Monet 1814. Sur les polypiers empâtés. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 20: 294-312, 370-386, 432-458 [452] [not MNHN Paris LBIM DT3435].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHN Paris LBIM DT628, 3333, 3334 (egaz), King Is., Bass Strait [39°50'S 144°00'E]; BMNH 1953.11.9.90 slide (egaz), King Is., Bass Strait [39°50'S 144°00'E].

  Type locality references:

  Topsent, E. 1933. Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Fin. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 6 10: 1-60 5 figs pls 1-3 [2].
• Chalina polychotoma angulata Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 16: 277-294 [285].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.168 dry (=AM G2890 - egaz), 38 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.12.15.166 dry (NMV photo 41/21 - egaz), 38 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.12.15.167 dry (NMV photo 41/20 - egaz), 38 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.12.15.169 dry (egaz), 38 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.12.15.179 dry (as Chalina angulata - egaz), 38 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.12.15.180 dry (egaz), 38 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
• Chalina polychotoma moniliformis Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 16: 277-294 [285].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ('Several large specimens in the British Museum' (not J.B. Wilson Collection), not found), south coast of Australia.
• Pachychalina elongata Ridley, S.O. & Dendy, A. 1886. Preliminary report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. Challenger. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 18: 325-351, 470-493 [329].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1887.5.2.203 wet (NMV photo 37/26 - egaz), Moncoeur Is., Bass Strait [39°20'S 145°30'E].
• Chalinissa communis digitata Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [772] [as communis, a junior secondary homonym of Tubulodigitus communis Carter].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM Z622 dry fragment of type (NMV photo 2/12 - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM Z622 wet fragment of type (NMV photos 12/5–7 - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.393 wet (egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1932.1.20.11 wet (egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.393a slide 3/60 (egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; AM G8951 dry (resembles pl. 8 in Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls., NMV photos 5/25–27 - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
• Chalinissa communis flabellum Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [772] [as communis a junior secondary homonym of Tubulodigitus communis Carter].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM G3428 (slide from BMNH 1886.8.27.391 or 392 - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW, WA, NT [33°51'S 151°15'E, 25°00'S 122°00'E, 20°00'S 134°00'E]; AM G3427 (slide from BMNH 1886.8.27.391A - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW, WA, NT [33°51'S 151°15'E, 25°00'S 122°00'E, 20°00'S 134°00'E]; ZMB 2322 slide (egaz), WA [25°00'S 122°00'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.391 dry (egaz), Port Jackson [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.391A dry (egaz), NT [20°00'S 134°00'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.392 wet (egaz), Port Jackson [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1932.2.4.4 dry fragment of type; BMNH 1886.8.27.391a, 391Aa, 392a 3 slides 3/60.
• Chalinissa macropora Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [772] [published type locality possibly erroneous; holotype (?) labelled 'Chalinissa micropora, Torres Strait'; no specimen labelled 'Chalinissa macropora' found in AM, BMNH, ZMB].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1886.8.27.584 dry (Torres Strait, =AM G3434 slide - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW (Torres Strait, QLD) [33°51'S 151°15'E].
• Chalinissa elegans Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [773] [syntype in AM labelled 'Dactylochalina elegans RVL' (Lendenfeld's ms) and 'Chalinissa elegans Lendenfeld, Type' (printed); junior secondary homonym of Cladochalina elegans Lendenfeld, 1887].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM G8957 dry (Illawarra, NMV photos 1/30,31 - egaz), Broughton Is., Port Stephens and Illawarra, NSW [32°37'S 152°21'E, 32°45'S 151°50'E, 37°04'S 142°42'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.395 wet (=AM G3430 slide - egaz), Broughton Is., Port Stephens and Illawarra, NSW [32°37'S 152°21'E, 32°45'S 151°50'E and 37°04'S 142°42'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.395a slide 3/60 (egaz), Broughton Is., Port Stephens and Illawarra, NSW [32°37'S 152°21'E, 32°45'S 151°50'E, 37°04'S 142°42'E]; BMNH 1954.2.12.95 slide 3/60 (egaz), Broughton Is., Port Stephens and Illawarra, NSW [32°37'S 152°21'E, 32°45'S 151°50'E, 37°04'S 142°42'E].
• Chalinissa rigida Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [773].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1886.8.27.394 wet (=AM G3431 slide - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1954.2.12.47 slide 3/60.
• Chalinissa serpens Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [773].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1886.8.27.583 dry, 583a, slide 3/60, East Coast.
• Chalinissa tenuifibris Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [773].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1886.8.27.585 dry (=AM G3429 slide - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
• Chalinissa elongata Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [774].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1886.8.27.582 dry (=AM G3432 slide - egaz), Illawarra, NSW [37°04'S 142°42'E]; ZMB 2276 4 slides (egaz), Illawarra, NSW [37°04'S 142°42'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.582a slide 3/60 (egaz), Illawarra, NSW [37°04'S 142°42'E]; BMNH 1954.2.10.116 slide 3/60 (egaz), Illawarra, NSW [37°04'S 142°42'E].
• Ceraochalina typica Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [782].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1886.8.27.439 dry (NMV photo 43/26, =AM G3446 slide - egaz), Port Phillip Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
• Chalina oculata novaezealandiae Dendy, A. 1924. Porifera. Part 1. Non-antarctic sponges. pp. 269–392 pls 1–15 in, British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report, Zoology Vol. 6. [326].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1923.10.1.64 wet (egaz - North Cape), 11 km E of North Cape, New Zealand [34°25'55"S 173°03'07"E].
• Chalinissa ramosa Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [774].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1886.8.27.586 wet (=AM 93433 (slide) - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.457, 457a slide 3/61 (egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.586a slide 3/46 (egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1954.2.12.126 slide 3/46 (egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].

 

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 [115]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Great Barrier Reef, SE coast, Bass Strait, TAS coast, QLD, NSW, VIC, TAS; Torres Strait, Broughton Is., Tuggerah Beach, Coogee, Port Jackson, Wata Mooli, Shoalhaven Bight, Wollongong, Port Phillip Bay or Heads, King Is., Moncoeur Is., Deal Is. and off Burnie.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, filter-feeder, sessile.

 

General References

Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [541, 598] (cites Chalinissa ramosa Lendenfeld, 1887 as a synonym of both Callyspongia diffusa and Euplacella communis (=Callyspongia serpentina)

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. [35]

 

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
		12-Feb-2010	(import)