Incertae Sedis

• Desmacidon fistulosa fuliginosa Carter, H.J. 1882. New sponges, observations on old ones, and a proposed new group. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 10: 106-125 [121] [unrecognisable].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (not found in BMNH), Fremantle, WA.
• Desmacidon plumosa Bowerbank, J.S. 1876. Contributions to a general history of the Spongiadae. Part VIII. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1876: 768-775 pls 78-81 [768] [unrecognisable].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1877.5.21.9 dry (figured, NMV photo 47/25), Shark Bay, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1877.5.21.1824 dry (NMV photo 47/26), no locality; BMNH 1877.5.21.1356 2 slides; BMNH 1877.5.21.1357 3 slides.
• Desmacidon stelligera Whitelegge, T. 1906. Sponges. Part I. In Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. Thetis off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4: 453-484 pls 43-44 [477] [unrecognisable; transferred to Gelliodes in Laubenfels, M.W. de 1936. A discussion of the sponge fauna of the Dry Tortugas in particular, and the West Indies in general, with material for a revision of the families and orders of the Porifera. (Tortugas Lab. Paper No. 467). Publications of the Carnegie Institute Washington 30: 1–225 22 pls 1 map (53), but possibly erroneously].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM G4328 dry (NMV photo 7/20,21, =BMNH 1927.6.23.7 fragment of type), 20 m, off Crookhaven River, NSW.
• Ectyonopsis ramosa Carter, H.J. 1883. Contributions to our knowledge of the Spongida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 12: 308-329 pls 11-14 [315] [unrecognisable].

  Type data:

   Holotype (formerly in LFM, possibly destroyed in 1941), SA.

  Secondary source:

   Stone, S.M. 1986. Index to Important Sponge Collections. Autumn 1986. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 47. [25].
• Spongia fucorum Esper, E.J.C. 1794. Die Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet, nebst Beschreibungen. Theil 2. Nürnberg : Raspischen Buchhandlung 303 pp.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, locality unknown.

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