Species Stylissa flabelliformis (Hentschel, 1912)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stylotella flabelliformis Hentschel, E. 1912. Kiesel- und Hornschwämme der Aru- und Kai Inseln. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 34: 294-448 pls 13-21 [355].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SMF 1587 wet (egaz), Aru Is, Arafura Sea, SW von Lola, Station 9, Indonesia, 8 m depth, coll. H. Merton, 1 April 1908, dredge [2°52'22"N 30°50'24"E].
  Paralectotype(s) SMF 1527, 1534, 1538, 1689, 1690 wet (SMF 1527, Station 8, 6–10 m depth, 31 March 1908; SMF1534, Station 8, 8–10 m depth, 1 April 1908; SMF1538, Station 12, 15 m depth, 8 April 1908; SMF1689; SMF1690), Aru Is, Indonesia, coll. H. Merton, dredge, Aru and Kei Is expedition, 1 October 1907, 31 August 1908.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Hooper, J.N.A. & Lévi, C. 1993. Axinellida from the New Caledonian lagoon (Porifera: Demospongiae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7(6): 1395-1472.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth subtidal–approximately 80 m.

General 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 [27]

Fromont, J. 2003. Porifera (Sponges) in the Dampier Archipelago: Taxonomic affinities and biogeography. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Marine Biological Workshop. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Dampier, Western Australia. 405-417 pp. [408] (Listed in this article)

Hooper, J.N.A., Capon, R.J., Keenan, C.P., Parry, D.L. & Smit, N. 1992. Chemotaxonomy of marine sponges: families Microcionidae, Raspailiidae and Axinellidae, and their relationships with other families in the orders Poecilosclerida and Axinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6(2): 261-301 [265] (misidentified as Teichaxinella labyrinthica Dendy, 1889)

Hooper, J.N.A. & Lévi, C. 1993. Axinellida from the New Caledonian lagoon (Porifera: Demospongiae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7(6): 1395-1472

History of changes