Species Sycon gelatinosum (Blainville, 1834)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Alcyoncellum gelatinosum Blainville, M.H.D. de 1834. Manuel d'actinologie ou de zoophytologie ... avec un atlas de 100 planches. Paris, Strasbourg 695 pp. 100 pls. [529].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Indian Ocean.
• Sycandra arborea Haeckel, E. 1872. Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. Berlin : Georg Reimer Vol. 1 pp. 1-396; Vol. 2 pp. 1-418; Vol. 3, pls 1-30. [part translated in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4)11: 241–262, 421–430] [331].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) PMJ (not found), Sydney, NSW; Bass Strait [39°20'S 145°30'E].
• Sycon gelatinosum whiteleggei Dendy, A. 1893. Synopsis of the Australian Calcarea Heterocoela, with a proposed classification of the group and descriptions of some new genera and species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 5: 69-116 [84].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NMV G2474, Watson's Bay, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°17'E]; BMNH 1893.6.9.13, Watson's Bay, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°17'E]; BMNH 1893.6.9.13a slide of above, Watson's Bay, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°17'E]; BMNH 1925.11.1.1509, Watson's Bay, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°17'E]; BMNH 1925.11.1.1509a slide of above, Watson's Bay, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°17'E]; BMNH 1925.11.1749,, Watson's Bay, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°17'E]; BMNH 1925.11.1.1748, Watson's Bay, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°17'E]; BMNH 1925.11.1.1410, Watson's Bay, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°17'E]; BMNH 1925.11.1.1424, Watson's Bay, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°17'E]; BMNH H 1925.11.1.1459, Watson's Bay, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°17'E]; BMNH 1925.11.1.1441, Watson's Bay, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°17'E]; BMNH 1893.6.9.8, Watson's Bay, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°17'E]; BMNH 1893.6.9.11 portion of BMNH 1893.6.9.8, Watson's Bay, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°17'E]; NMV 9245, Watson's Bay, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°17'E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dendy, A. & Row, R.W.H. 1913. The classification and phylogeny of the calcareous sponges, with a reference list of all the described species, systematically arranged. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1913: 704-813 [745]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth subtidal–73 m.

General References

Ayling, A.L., Stone, S. & Smith, B.J. 1982. Catalogue of types of sponge species from Southern Australia described by Arthur Dendy. Reports of the National Museum of Victoria 1: 97-109 [107]

Burton, M. 1963. A Revision of the Classification of the Calcareous Sponges. London : British Museum pp. 1-693 figs 1-375. [604]

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