Species Stylissa massa (Carter, 1887)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Axinella virgultosa massa Carter, H.J. 1887. Report on the marine sponges, chiefly from King Island in the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr John Anderson. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology Zool. 21: 61-84 pls 5-7 [68].

  Type data:

   Holotype IM (egaz), Andaman Sea, Mergui Archipelago (Burma) [6°43'08"N 96°41'05"E, 12°13'30"N 97°04'04"E].
• Stylotella conulosa Topsent, E. 1897. Spongiaires de la Baie d'Amboine. (Voyage de MM. M. Bedot et C. Pictet dans l'archipel Malais.). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 4: 421-487 pls 18-21 [466].

  Type data:

   Lectotype GMNH C-12/45 (egaz - Indonesia), Ambon, Moluccas, Indonesia [3°50'39"S 137°40'49"E].
  Paralectotype(s) MNHN Paris LBIM DT1775.

  Secondary source:

   Desqueyroux-Faundez, R. 1981. Révision de la collection d'Eponges d'Amboine (Moluques, Indonésie) constituée par Bedot et Pictet et conservée au Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Genève. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 88: 723-764 [756].
• Suberites mollis Kieschnick, O. 1898. Die Kieselschwämme von Amboina. Inauguraldissertation. Jena : G. Neuenhahn 66 pp. [46].

  Type data:

   Holotype PMJ (not found - egaz), Thursday Is. [10°35'S 142°13'E].
• Stylotella aurantium Kelly-Borges, M. & Bergquist, P.R. 1988. Sponges from Motupore Island, Papua New Guinea. Indo-Malayan Zoology 5: 121-159 [132-133 pl. 2b-c].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM Z4994 wet, East Motopore Island, Bootless Bay, Southern Papua New Guinea [9°31.6'S 147°16.6'E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burton, M. 1959. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition 10(5): 151-281 41 figs [266]
• Hooper, J.N.A. The Australian Faunal Directory, http://biodiversity.org.au/afd

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Subtidal waters to 13.5 m.

General References

Burton, M. 1959. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition 10(5): 151-281 41 figs

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

Simpson, J.S. & Garson, M.J. 1999. Cyanide and thiocyanate-based biosynthesis in tropical marine sponges. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 559-567 [560] (Mentioned in this article as 'Stylotella aurantium')

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