Species Suberea fusca (Carter, 1880)

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• Aplysina fusca Carter, H.J. 1880. Report on specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar and presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt. W.H. Cawne Warren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 6: 35-61, 129-156 pls 4-8 [36] [Hooper & Wiedenmayer (Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. In, Wells, A. (ed). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 12. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia xiii 624 pp.) suggested that this species was unrecognisable based on the assessment that Carter's specimen (Carter, H.J. 1881. Contributions to our knowledge of the Spongida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 8: 101–112, 118–120, 241–259 pl. 9 (107, pl. 19 fig. 11)) BMNH 1877.5.21.1884 from SW Australia was probably not conspecific, and Dendy's specimen (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 (pl. F fig. 3)), BMNH 1889.1.21.26 dry was not located. Bergquist & Cook (Bergquist, P.R. & Cook, S.D.C. 2002. Family Aplyinellidae Bergquist, 1980. pp. 1094-1096 in Hooper, J.N.A. & Soest, R.W.M. Van (eds). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 1 . (1096)) mention it as a valid species of Suberea].

  Type data:

   Holotype ex LFM destroyed in 1941, Gulf of Mannar, Sri Lanka [8°36'39"N 78°35'27"E].

  Secondary source:

   Stone, S.M. 1986. Index to Important Sponge Collections. Autumn 1986. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 47. [25]; Bergquist, P.R. & Cook, S.D.C. 2002. Family Aplyinellidae Bergquist, 1980. pp. 1094-1096 in Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera: A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 1. [1096].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, benthic, filter-feeder.

History of changes