Species Topsentia solida (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halichondria solida Ridley, S.O. & Dendy, A. 1886. Preliminary report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. Challenger. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 18: 325-351, 470-493 [326].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1887.5.2.207 wet, 5 slides, 2/73 (egaz), 58–138 m, Tahiti, South Pacific [17°35'45"S 149°30'39"W].
  Paratype(s) ZMB unknown fragment of type.
• Halichondria solida rugosa Ridley, S.O. & Dendy, A. 1886. Preliminary report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. Challenger. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 18: 325-351, 470-493.

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1887.5.2.200 wet, 2 slides 2/73,74, off Epi, New Hebrides, Melanesia [no coords available on egaz].
• Halichondria granulata Keller, C. 1891. Die Spongienfauna des rothen Meeres (2. Hälfte). Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 52: 294-368 pls 16-20 [310].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMUZ 123 970 wet (egaz), 3 m, reefs of Suakin, Red Sea [22°32'56"N 37°06'43"E].
• Halichondria tuberculata Keller, C. 1891. Die Spongienfauna des rothen Meeres (2. Hälfte). Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 52: 294-368 pls 16-20 [310].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB unknown or ZMUZ* (not found - egaz - Red Sea), Assab Bay, Red Sea [22°32'56"N 37°06'43"E].
• Halichondria minuta Keller, C. 1891. Die Spongienfauna des rothen Meeres (2. Hälfte). Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 52: 294-368 pls 16-20 [311].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ZMB unknown unknown (not found - egaz - Red Sea), 34 m, off Perim Is., Red Sea [22°32'56"N 37°06'43"E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burton, M. 1927. III. Report on the sponges. In Zoological results of the Suez Canal Expedition. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 22(1926): 71-83 [76-78]
• Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 513-621 pls 1-2 [564]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Christmas Is.; Flying Fish Cove, Pasco Reef, also Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, New Zealand, W and central Pacific Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth subtidal–1265 m.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018	DEMOSPONGIAE Sollas, 1885	17-Sep-2014	MODIFIED	ABRS
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)