Species Suberites globosus Carter, 1886

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• Suberites globosa Carter, H.J. 1886. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 17: 40-53, 112-127 [116].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.106 9 specimens, wet (NMV photos 39/2,3, =AM G 2745 slide), 33 and 35 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.12.15.376–377 dry (NMV photo 41/4), 33 and 35 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.12.15.378 dry (NMV photo 41/3, =AM G2935 slide), 33 and 35 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.12.15.379 dry (NMV photo 41/5), 33 and 35 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.12.15.380 dry (NMV photo 41/5, =AM G2937 slide), 33 and 35 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.12.15.381 dry (NMV photo 41/6), 33 and 35 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.12.15.382–383 dry (NMV photo 41/3), 33 and 35 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.12.15.106a–378a 2 slides 2/32, 33 and 35 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hooper, J.N.A. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994] (rejects synonymy of this species with Halichondria carnosa Johnston, 1842, Suberites massa Nardo, 1847, Halichondria flava Lieberkühn, 1859, Halichondria lobata Lieberkühn, 1859 and Suberites hystrix Schmidt, 1868 proposed by Topsent, E. 1900. Etude monographique des Spongiaires de France. III. Monaxonida (Hadromerina). Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 3 8: 1–331 pls 1–8 [233]; Topsent, E. 1945. Guide pour la connaissance d'Eponges de la Méditerranée. Tableaux de corrections apportées aux mémoires d'O. Schmidt sur le sujet (1862, 1864, 1868). Bulletin de l' Institut Océanographie de Monaco 883: 1–19 [7, 8, 14])

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Port Jackson, Port Phillip Heads, Westernport Bay, Maria Is., Roaring Beach and South Arm, Pilot's Point, also SW Atlantic Ocean, (Brazil), N Atlantic Ocean, Arctic, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, New Zealand and N Pacific Ocean.

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 11–810 m.

 

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]

Dendy, A. 1897. Catalogue of non-calcareous sponges collected by J. Bracebridge Wilson, Esq., M.A., in the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads. Part 3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 9: 230-259 [245]

Hooper, J.N.A. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994] [410] (rejected synonymy with Halichondria carnosa Johnston, 1842)

 

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)