Species Thorecta latus (Carter, 1885)

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• Stelospongus latus Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 15: 301-321 [306] [=Stelospongus flabelliformis var. lata; in part: holotype only; one wet specimen is mentioned in the descripition, but two are listed in Carter's ms Catalogue of J.B. Wilson specimens, both as dry].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1886.12.15.271 dry (=AM G2863 slide - egaz), 13 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
• Cacospongia exemplum secunda Lendenfeld, R. von 1885. A monograph of the Australian sponges. Part 5. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 282-325 pls 26-35 [307] [type series composite; excluded types in BMNH mostly to Taonura colus (Lamarck, 1814) and Taonura marginalis (Lendenfeld, 1888)].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1886.12.15.270 wet (Stelospongus cribrocrusta Carter - egaz), Port Phillip Heads, Phillip Is., VIC; Port Jackson near Sydney, NSW; WA; NT; [Encounter Bay, SA; Port Chalmers, NZ] (locality not differentiated by author) [38°07'S 144°48'E, 38°29'S 145°14'E, 33°51'S 151°15'E, 35°35'S 138°44'E].
  Paralectotype(s) AM G3988 dry (NMV photo 3/21, =Taonura colus), NT; AM Z539 wet (NMV photos 15/5,6), Port Jackson [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1837.5.13.34 dry (no data); BMNH 843.1.9.9 dry (no data); BMNH 1851.7.25.194 dry (no data, (BMNH 1854.10.7.85 dry (no data)), (BMNH 1854.10.7.86 dry (no data)), (BMNH dry (no data)), (BMNH 1870.12.22.3 dry (no data)), (BMNH dry (no data)), (BMNH 1844.9.13.10 dry (no data)), (BMNH 1844.11.4.41 dry (no data)), (BMNH 14 unregistered specimens ('146')), BMNH 1886.12.15.271 dry (Stelospongus flabelliformis latus Carter), (BMNH 1886.12.15.361 dry (NMV photos 50/31,32)), BMNH 1886.12.15.265–269 dry (Stelospongus cribrocrusta Carter), BMNH 1886.8.27.184 dry (Port Chalmers, NZ; not found), ZMB 1196 wet (3 slides, NZ), ZMB 2289 wet (4 slides, Encounter Bay, SA); AM Z539 wet (NMV photos 15/5, 6), Port Jackson [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1837.5.13.34 dry (no data); BMNH 1851.7.25.194 dry (no data); BMNH 1854.10.7.85 dry (no data); BMNH 1854.10.7.86 dry (no data); BMNH 1870.12.22.2–3 dry (no data); BMNH 1840.5.6.77 dry (no data); BMNH 1844.11.4.41 dry (no data); BMNH unregistered '146' 14 specimens; BMNH 1886.12.15.271 dry (Stelospongus flabelliformis latus Carter); BMNH 1886.12.15.361 dry (NMV photos 50/31, 32); BMNH 1886.12.15.265–269 dry (Stelospongus cribrocrusta Carter); BMNH 1886.8.27.184 dry (not found), Port Chalmers, NZ [no coords available in egaz]; ZMB 1196 wet (3 slides), NZ; ZMB 2289 wet (4 slides) (egaz), Encounter Bay, SA [35°35'S 138°44'E].

  Type locality references:

  Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [144]; Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. [358].
• Cacospongia exemplum tertia Lendenfeld, R. von 1885. A monograph of the Australian sponges. Part 5. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 282-325 pls 26-35 [308] [type series composite; lectotype figured in Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. pl. 24 fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1886.8.27.188 wet, –189, slide (egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
  Paralectotype(s) AM G2980 dry (NMV photos 1/23,24); BMNH 1886.8.27.186 dry,–187, slide (not found), East Coast, [?]; BMNH 1886.12.15.448–449 dry (Stelospongus cribrocrusta Carter); BMNH 1886.12.15.263–264 dry, 2 halves (Stelospongus cribrocrusta Carter)); ZMB 2290 wet, 4 slides (egaz - Auckland Bay), Auckland Ils, New Zealand [12°06'14"N 98°27'43"E]; ZMB 7168 4 slides, no locality.
• Stelospongus cribrocrusta Carter, H.J. 1886. Supplement to the descriptions of Mr. J. Bracebridge Wilson's Australian sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 18: 369-379 [369].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1886.12.15.270 wet (figured in Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. pl. 27 fig. 2 and Bergquist, P.R. 1980. A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida (Class Demospongiae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 7: 443–503 figs 1–25 pls fig. 9c), Port Phillip Heads [38°07'S 144°48'E].
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.263–264 dry (8 specimens); BMNH 1886.12.15.265–269 dry; BMNH 1886.12.15.448–449 dry; AM G2861 (slide from BMNH 1886.12.15.263 or (and?) –270).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wiedenmayer, F. 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] [243]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Port Jackson, Port Phillip Heads, Westernport Bay, Henley Beach, Adelaide, Hannants Bight, Alligator Rock, Safety Cove, Eddystone Beach, Roches Beach.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 3–19 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. [41]

 

History of changes

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