Species Stylissa carteri (Dendy, 1889)

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Species Stylissa carteri (Dendy, 1889)

Acanthella carteri Dendy, A. 1889. Report on a second collection of sponges from the Gulf of Manaar. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 3: 73-99 pls 3-5 [93].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1889.1.21.53 dry (Subsequent designation: Lectotype chosen from three specimens collected by E. Thurston from the Gulf of Manaar, and bearing a hand-written red label: “No. 65, Brit. Mus. Reg. 89.1.21.53. Loc: Gulf of Manaar. Coll. Thurston (2).” (Alvarez & Hooper 2010)), Tuticorin Pearl Banks, Gulf of Manaar, coll. E. Thurston, 1889, Sri Lanka, Gulf of Manaar [8°36'39"N 78°35'27"E].
Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1889.1.21.11 wet, Tuticorin Pearl Banks, Gulf of Manaar, coll. E. Thurston, 1889; BMNH 1890.6.28.4 dry, P. Amban[?], Gulf of Manaar, shallow water, coll. E. Thurston.
Subsequent designation references:
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 [26].
Acanthella aurantiaca Keller, C. 1889. Die Spongienfauna des rothen Meeres (1. Hälfte). Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 48: 311-405 pls 20-25 [396].
Type data:
Lectotype ZMB 0182 dry, Red Sea, coll. Hemprick & Ehrenberg, 1889 [22°32'56"N 37°06'43"E].
Paralectotype(s) ZMB 2921 wet, Suakin, Red Sea, 5 August 1889
Comment: Lectotype chosen from two syntypes bearing the original hand-written label: “Acanthella aurantiaca, Rothes Meers” and matching Keller’s illustration (Alvarez & Hooper 2010).
Subsequent designation references:
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 [26].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

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 [26]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Stylissa carteri is a very common species through the Indo-Pacific and its distribution extends well beyond the present study area. Based on reported and verified records the species is present throughout a number of provinces including Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, western Indian Ocean, central Indian Ocean islands, Northwest Australian Shelf, Sahul Shelf, Northeast Australian Shelf, and tropical Southern Pacific Ocean. It is found between 5 and 25 m deep within the study region, but deeper in other provinces (e.g. up to 76 m in the Northwest Australian Shelf province). Genetic studies of populations might reveal that Stylissa carteri constitutes a complex of cryptic species which would explain the wide distribution observed in this species (Alvarez & Hooper 2010).

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)