Species Callyspongia (Callyspongia) bullata (Lamarck, 1814)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spongia bullata Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de Monet 1814. Sur les polypiers empâtés. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 20: 294-312, 370-386, 432-458 [437] [typical form only, not var. b].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHN Paris LBIM DT592 cut in half, 3371, 3372 (egaz), Kangaroo Is., SA [35°50'S 137°06'E]; BMNH 1932.1.20.2 dry fragment of type (egaz), Kangaroo Is., SA [35°50'S 137°06'E]; MNHN Paris LBIM DT593, DT594, DT3373 (probable - egaz), Kangaroo Is., SA [35°50'S 137°06'E].

  Secondary source:

   Topsent, E. 1932. Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Deuxième partie. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 6 8: 61-124 2 figs pls 1-6 [76].
• Tubulodigitus communis Carter, H.J. 1881. Supplementary report on specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar, together with others from the sea in the vicinity of the Basse Rocks and from Bass's Straits respectively, presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt. H. Cawne Warren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 7: 361-385 pl. 18 [367] [holotype lost from LFM].

  Type data:

   Neotype BMNH 1889.1.21.1 wet (egaz), off Tuticorin, Gulf of Mannar, India [8°36'39"N 78°35'27"E].
• Patuloscula procumbens flabelliformis Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 16: 277-294 [286].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.203 dry (NMV photo 43/8, =AM G2897 slide - egaz), Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.12.15.202 dry (NMV photo 43/9 - egaz), Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.12.15.204 dry (NMV photo 43/10 - egaz), Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.12.15.205 dry (NMV photo 43/7 - egaz), Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.12.15.203a, –205a 2 slides 3/60 (egaz), Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
• Siphonochalina intermedia 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 [331].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1887.5.2.234 wet, –234a, slide 3/35 (egaz), Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S 151°15'E].

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] [90]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

SE coast, Bass Strait, S coast, NSW, VIC, SA; Port Stephens, Hawkesbury River, Tuggerah Beach, Port Jackson, Maroubra Bay, Port Phillip Heads, Kangaroo Is., also Indian Ocean and New Zealand.

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 0–36 m.

History of changes