Species Tethya aurantium (Pallas, 1766)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Alcyonium aurantium Pallas, P.S. 1766. Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succinctas descriptiones cum selectis auctorum synonymis. Hagae-comitum : P. van Cleef 45 pp. [357].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, 'seas of Europe' [38°07'S 144°48'E].

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Blubberhead, Eddystone Point, also Atlantic coast of Europe, Africa, South America, Mediterranean and New Zealand.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth intertidal–9 m, congregated on rocks.

 

General References

Burton, M. 1924. A revision of the sponge family Donatidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1924: 1033-1045 pl. 1 [1036] (misidentified as Donatia lyncurium Linnaeus, 1767 and Tethya deformis Thiele, 1898)

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 Unpublished M.Sc.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. [15]

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] (questions conspecificity of European and Australian populations)

 

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)