Species Callyspongia (Callyspongia) robusta (Ridley, 1884)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Toxochalina robusta Ridley, S.O. 1884. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. Alert, 1881–1882. Spongiida. (Part 1, Australian sponges). London : British Museum (Natural History) 366-482, pls 39-43. [403].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1881.10.21.336 wet (egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]; BMNH 1881.10.21.337 wet, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].
• Toxochalina chalmeri Brøndsted, H.V. 1927. Antarctic and subantarctic sponges collected by S. Wallin 1924. Arkiv för Zoologi 19(A,6): 1-6 [5].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (ZMLU? - egaz), Port Chalmers, New Zealand [27°34'19"S 177°59'49"E].
• Toxochalina dendyi Burton, M. 1931. On a collection of marine sponges mostly from the Natal coast. Annals of the Natal Museum 6: 337-358 9 figs pl. 23 [340].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMP, Indian Ocean, Winkle Spruit (Natal coast), South Africa [?].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Vacelet, J., Vasseur, P. & Lévi, C. 1976. Spongiaires de la pente externe des récifs coralliens de Tuléar (Sud-Ouest de Madagascar). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] ns A 49: 1-116 78 figs pls 1-10 [84]
• Bergquist, P.R. & Warne, K.P. 1980. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 3 (Haplosclerida and Nepheliospongida). Memoirs of the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute 87: 1-77 17 pls 4 figs [31]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

SE coast, NSW; Port Jackson, also Indian Ocean, S Africa and New Zealand.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 0–40 m.

 

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)