Species Tethya ingalli Bowerbank, 1859

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• Tethya ingalli Bowerbank, J.S. 1859. On the anatomy and physiology of the Spongiadae. Part I. On the spicula. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 148: 279-332 pls 23-26 [307] [not [Tethya ingalli] sensu Sollas, 1888 and authors, in part; see Bergquist, P.R. & Kelly-Borges, M. 1991. An evaluation of the genus Tethya (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with descriptions of new species from the southwest Pacific. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 8(1): 37–72 (48)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1877.5.21.140 5 specimens, 4 wet, including figured specimen, locality unknown; BMNH 1877.5.21.151 wet, locality unknown; BMNH 1877.5.21.1497 3 slides, locality unknown; BMNH 1877.5.21.1498 6 slides, locality unknown; BMNH 1877.5.21.140a unregistered 2 slides 2/48, locality unknown.
• Tethya diploderma Schmidt, E.O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des Atlantischen Gebietes. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 6 pls. [52].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MCZ, Antilles [no coord available].

  Secondary source:

   Wiedenmayer, F. 1977. Shallow-water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel : Birkhäuser (Experientia Suppl. 28) 287 pp. 43 pls. [260]; Desqueyroux-Faundez, R. & Stone, S.M. 1992. O. Schmidt Sponge Catalogue. An illustrated guide to the Graz Museum Collection, with notes on additional material. Geneva : Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle iv+190 pp. 49 pls. [74] (re types).
• Tethya cliftoni Bowerbank, J.S. 1873. Contributions to a general history of the Spongiadae. Part IV. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873: 3-25 pls 1-4 [16].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH unregistered dry D.A.38 (NMV photos 40/13–15), Fremantle, WA [32°03'S 115°46'E].
  Paratype(s) BMNH unregistered 4 slides, 2/49.
• Tethya inflata Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [49].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM G9070 wet (mislabelled Tethya fissurata , NMV photos 15/7–9), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.626 wet, slide AM G3665, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1886.27.627 fragment of type, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1925.11.1.1090 slide from AM G9070, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
• Tethya phillipensis Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [50].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM G9077 wet (NMV photos 22/32–36, 23/0), Port Phillip Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.620 wet, Port Phillip Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.621 wet, Port Phillip Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.622 wet, Port Phillip Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.623 wet, Port Phillip Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.668 slide 2/49, Port Phillip Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.669 slide 2/50, Port Phillip Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.674 slide 2/50, Port Phillip Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1954.2.12.3, 1954.2.10.18, 1886.8.27.620a–623a wet, 3 slides 2/49,2/50, Port Phillip Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; ZMB 1121 6 slides, Port Phillip Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
• Tethya laevis Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [51].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1886.8.27.624 wet, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.625 fragments of type(s?) (=AM G366 7 slides), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1954.2.10.17 slide 2/49, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
• Donatia parvistella Baer, L. 1906. Silicispongien von Sansibar, Kapstadt und Papeete. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 72: 1-32 pls 1-5 [31].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB 1064, Zanzibar, Indian Ocean [6°09'57"S 39°12'10"E].
• Donatia ingalli maxima Hentschel, E. 1909. Tetraxonida. 347-402 pls 22-23 1. Teil. in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 2 (21). [372].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMH 2 specimens, Shark Bay, WA [25°30'S 113°30'E].
• Donatia japonica nucleata Hentschel, E. 1909. Tetraxonida. 347-402 pls 22-23 1. Teil. in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 2 (21). [372].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMH, Shark Bay, Fremantle, Cockburn Sound, Warnbro Sound, Oyster Harbour (Albany), WA [25°30'S 113°30'E, 32°03'S 115°46'E, 32°10'S 115°44'E, 32°20'S 115°43'E, 34°56'S 117°58'E].
• Donatia japonica globosa Hentschel, E. 1909. Tetraxonida. 347-402 pls 22-23 1. Teil. in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 2 (21). [373].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH, Cockburn Sound, WA [32°10'S 115°44'E].
• Taboga taboga Laubenfels, M.W. de 1936. A comparison of the shallow water sponges near the Pacific end of the Panama Canal with those at the Caribbean end. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 83(2993): 441-466 [452].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 22216, Pacific end of Panama Canal [no coords available].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burton, M. 1924. A revision of the sponge family Donatidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1924: 1033-1045 pl. 1 [1039] (in part)
• Burton, M. 1956. The sponges of West Africa. pp. 111–147 in Atlantide Report. Copenhagen : Danish Science Press 4 pp. [120] (in part)
• Hechtel, G.J. 1965. A systematic study of the Demospongiae of Port Royal, Jamaica. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 20: i-iv 1-103 8 pls [66] (probable exclusion of Tethya diploderma Schmidt, 1870)
• Bergquist, P.R. & Kelly-Borges, M. 1991. An evaluation of the genus Tethya (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with descriptions of new species from the southwest Pacific. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 8(1): 37-72 [48] (probable exclusion of Tethya diploderma Schmidt, 1870)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Christmas Is., Port Jackson, Port Phillip Heads, Fremantle, Shark Bay, Cockburn Sound, Koonbanz Bay, Oyster Harbour, also Indian Ocean and Indo-Malayan region (possibly New Zealand, but see Bergquist, P.R. & Kelly-Borges, M. 1991. An evaluation of the genus Tethya (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with descriptions of new species from the southwest Pacific. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 8(1): 37–72 [48]).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth intertidal–396 m.

 

General References

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 West Indian and Australian populations)

Sarà, M. & Sarà, A. 2004. A revision of Australian and New Zealand Tethya (Porifera: Demospongiae) with a preliminary analysis of species-groupings. Invertebrate Systematics 18: 117-156 [117]

Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [29]

 

History of changes

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