Species Tethya aurantium (Pallas, 1766)

• 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.

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 Unpublished M.Sc.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)
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29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
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