Species Trachycladus laevispirulifer Carter, 1879
- Spirophora bacterium Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [795].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1887.4.27.31 wet, slide (=AM G3476 slide), Westernport Bay, VIC [38°22'S 145°20'E]. - Spirophora digitata Lendenfeld, R. von 1887. Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 2: 723-828 pls 18-26, 28 [794].
Type data:
Holotype AM Z488 wet (NMV photos 17/2,3), Port Jackson, NSW (Encounter Bay, SA) [33°51'S 151°15'E, 35°35'S 138°44'E].
Paratype(s) AM Z1333 wet (figured in Hallmann, 1916a, pl. 22 fig. 2, NMV photos 17/2,3); AM Z1336 wet (figured in Hallmann, 1916a, pl. 22 fig. 1, NMV photos 17/2,3); BMNH 1887.4.27.107 wet (=AM G3475 slide); BMNH 1954.2.10.76 slide 2/58; BMNH 1954.2.12.174 slide 2/58; ZMB 2267 5 slides, Encounter Bay; ZMB 7086 slide. - Trachycladus laevispirulifer Carter, H.J. 1879. Contributions to our knowledge of the Spongida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 3: 284-304, 343-360 pls 25-29 [343].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH unregistered dry, figured (NMV photos 41/12/13), South Australia [30°00'S 135°00'E].
Paratype(s) BMNH 1883.1.25.10 dry (NMV photo 41/15). - Trachycladus stylifer Dendy, A. 1924. Porifera. Part 1. Non-antarctic sponges. pp. 269–392 pls 1–15 in, British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report, Zoology Vol. 6. [377].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1923.10.1.158 wet, 182 m, Three Kings Is., New Zealand [34°11'02"S 172°05'20"E]. - Trachycladus scabrosus Hallmann, E.F. 1916. A revision of the genera with microscleres included, or provisionally included, in the family Axinellidae; with descriptions of some Australian species. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 453-491 9 figs pls 21-29/1-2, 39/6-7 [459].
Type data:
Holotype AM Z1501 wet (NMV photo 25/33), off Port Jackson, NSW [38°07'S 144°48'E]. - Trachycladus fastigatus Hallmann, E.F. 1916. A revision of the genera with microscleres included, or provisionally included, in the family Axinellidae; with descriptions of some Australian species. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 453-491 9 figs pls 21-29/1-2, 39/6-7 [462].
Type data:
Holotype AM E3710 wet (NMV photos 30/6,7), Great Australian Bight [39°00'S 130°00'E]. - Trachycladus digitatus gracilis Hallmann, E.F. 1916. A revision of the genera with microscleres included, or provisionally included, in the family Axinellidae; with descriptions of some Australian species. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 453-491 9 figs pls 21-29/1-2, 39/6-7 [472].
Type data:
Holotype AM Z963 wet (NMV photos 15/33,34), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E]. - Trachycladus digitatus clavatus Hallmann, E.F. 1916. A revision of the genera with microscleres included, or provisionally included, in the family Axinellidae; with descriptions of some Australian species. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 453-491 9 figs pls 21-29/1-2, 39/6-7 [474] [see also figs and plates: fig. 6, pl. 22 fig. 4, pl. 23 fig. 3, pl. 25 fig. 2, pl. 27 fig. 3, pl. 28 fig. 5, pl. 29 fig. 1].
Type data:
Holotype AM Z1270 wet (NMV photo 14/30), Port Phillip Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].Type locality references:
Wilson, J. Bracebridge 1895. List of dredging stations at and near Port Phillip Heads. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 7: 261-263 [Station XB]. - Trachycladus digitatus strongylatus Hallmann, E.F. 1916. A revision of the genera with microscleres included, or provisionally included, in the family Axinellidae; with descriptions of some Australian species. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 453-491 9 figs pls 21-29/1-2, 39/6-7 [477] [see also figs and plates: fig. 7, pl. 22 fig. 5, pl. 23 fig. 4, pl. 26 figs 3, 6, pl. 27 fig. 4].
Type data:
Holotype AM Z1760 wet (NMV photos 16/25,26), Port Phillip Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]. - Trachycladus reteporosus Hallmann, E.F. 1916. A revision of the genera with microscleres included, or provisionally included, in the family Axinellidae; with descriptions of some Australian species. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 453-491 9 figs pls 21-29/1-2, 39/6-7 [479] [see also figs and plates: pl. 21 figs 2, 3, pl. 23 figs 5–8, pl. 24 figs 1–3, pl. 25 fig. 1, pl. 26 figs 1, 4, 7, pl. 27 fig. 5, pl. 28 figs 1–4, pl. 29 fig. 2].
Type data:
Holotype AM Z1620 wet (NMV photos 30/29,30), Port Phillip Bay and Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
Paratype(s) 11 specimens (including 10 'hypotypes' of Trachycladus laevispirulifer Dendy, 1897); 297, 366, 426, 470, 983, 984, 1000, 1061 (not found in NMV). - Trachycladus pustulosus Hallmann, E.F. 1916. A revision of the genera with microscleres included, or provisionally included, in the family Axinellidae; with descriptions of some Australian species. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 453-491 9 figs pls 21-29/1-2, 39/6-7 [486] [see also figs and plates: fig. 9, pl. 21 fig. 5, pl. 26 figs 5, 8, pl. 27 fig. 6, pl. 39 figs 6, 7, pl. 39 figs 6, 7 may be
Spirophora bacterium Lendenfeld, 1887].Type data:
Holotype AM Z1761 wet (NMV photos 22/0–2), Port Phillip Bay, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
Paratype(s) AM (not found).
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Dendy, A. & Frederick, L.M. 1924. On a collection of sponges from the Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology Zool. 35: 477-519 pls 25-26 [506]
- Bergquist, P.R. 1970. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 2 (Axinellida and Halichondrida). (Mem. N.Z. Oceanogr. Inst. 51). Bulletin of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 197: 1-85 20 pls 3 figs [21]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Port Jackson, Port Phillip Heads, Great Australian Bight; also New Zealand.
IMCRA
Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)
Ecological Descriptors
Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.
Extra Ecological Information
Depth 14–180 m.
General References
Erpenbeck, D., List-Armitage, S., Alvarez, B., Degnan, B.M., Wörheide, G. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2007. The systematics of Raspailiidae (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida: Microcionina) re-analysed with a ribosomal marker. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 87: 1571–1576 [1573]
Fromont, J. 1999. Demosponges of the Houtman Abrolhos. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 175-184 [177] (Listed in this article)
Hooper, J.N.A. & Kennedy, J.A. 2002. Small-scale patterns of sponge biodiversity (Porifera) on Sunshine Coast reefs, eastern Australia. Invertebrate Systematics 16(4): 637-653 [640]
Searle, P.A. & Molinsky, T.F. 1995. Trachycladines A and B: 2'-C-methyl-5'-deoxyribofuranosyl nucleosides from the marine sponge Trachycladus laevispirulifer. Journal of Organic Chemistry 60: 4296-4298 [4296]
Sorokin, S., Fromont, J. & Currie, D. 2007. Demosponge biodiversity in the Benthic Protection Zone of the Great Australian Bight. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 132(2): 192-204 [195]
Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [53]
History of changes
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