Species Stellitethya repens (Schmidt, 1870)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tethya repens Schmidt, E.O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des Atlantischen Gebietes. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 6 pls. [51].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ, Florida [28°24'04"N 81°38'36"W].

  Secondary source:

   Wiedenmayer, F. 1977. Shallow-water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel : Birkhäuser (Experientia Suppl. 28) 287 pp. 43 pls. [172, 260].
• Donatia fissurata extensa Hentschel, E. 1909. Tetraxonida. 347-402 pls 22-23 1. Teil. in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 2 (21). [374].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMH 2 specimens (coord for Middle Bluff), 7–8 m, NW of Middle Bluff Shark Bay, WA; WA, no locality [25°49'11"S 113°21'07"E]; BMNH 1925.11.1.1111 fragment of type; ZMB 6589 2 slides; ZMB 4267 fragment of type; BMNH unregistered slide (ex ZMH 1530 2/54).

  Secondary source:

   Burton, M. 1924. A revision of the sponge family Donatidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1924: 1033-1045 pl. 1 [1036].
• Donatia tylota Hentschel, E. 1912. Kiesel- und Hornschwämme der Aru- und Kai Inseln. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 34: 294-448 pls 13-21 [317].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SMF 993 2 specimens, wet (only coord avail for Arafura Sea), 16 m, Sungai Manumbai, near Dosi, Aru islands, Arafura Sea; 20 m, Kapala Sungai, Sungai Manumbai [9°00'S 133°00'E].
• Donatia stellagrandis Dendy, A. 1916. Report on the Homosclerophora and Astrotetraxonida collected by H.M.S. Sealark in the Indian Ocean. In Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905. Vol. 6. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 17: 225-271 pls 44-48 [266].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1920.12.9.85 wet, Amirante Ils, Indian Ocean [6°55'37"S 52°06'03"E].
• Tethycordyla thyris Laubenfels, M.W. de 1934. New sponges from the Puerto Rican deep. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 91(17): 1-28 [8].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 22368, 329–366 m, NE of Puerto Rico, West Indies [26°34'N 98°52'W].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burton, M. 1924. A revision of the sponge family Donatidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1924: 1033-1045 pl. 1 [1036]
• Burton, M. 1956. The sponges of West Africa. pp. 111–147 in Atlantide Report. Copenhagen : Danish Science Press 4 pp. [120]
• Burton, M. 1959. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition 10(5): 151-281 41 figs [215]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Shark Bay, West Indian region, Indian Ocean and Indo-Malayan region.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 7–878 m.

 

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)