Species Suberites australiensis Bergquist, 1968

Museums

Regional Maps

• Suberites australiensis Bergquist, P.R. 1968. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 1 (Tetractinomorpha and Lithistida). Bulletin of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 188: 1-105 15 pls 30 figs [27].

  Type data:

   Holotype MONZ Porif.17, 82 m, SE of East Cape, New Zealand [51°22'26"N 179°29'02"E].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Port Jackson, Port Phillip Bay, N and E coast TAS, and also New Zealand.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 72–126 m, mostly massive, comparable to Ficulina ficus Linnaeus, 1767, occasionally on crabs (Port Phillip Bay).

 

General References

Carpay, M. 1986. The marine sponges of Tasmania. A checklist of a number of marine sponges, occurring along the Tasmanian coast. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis, Department of Bijzondere Dierkunde, Institute of Taxonomic Zoology, Amsterdam. pp. 1–77. [14]

 

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)