Species Dactylia varia (Gray, 1843)

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• Spongia varia Gray, J.E. 1843. Additional radiated animals and Annelides. pp. 292-295 in Dieffenbach, E. (ed.). Travels in New Zealand: with contributions to the geography, geology, botany and natural history of that country. London : John Murray Vol. 2. [295] [redescription by Dendy, A. 1898. On the sponges described in Diffenbach's ‘New Zealand’. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 30: 316–320 pls 33–34 (319, pl. 34 fig. E)].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1842.12.2.127 dry (egaz), New Zealand [27°34'19"S 177°59'49"E].
• Dactylia chaliniformis Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 15: 301-321 [309].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1886.12.15.195 (NMV photo 47/6, figured in Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. pl. 1 fig. 2 - egaz), 36 m, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.194 dry; BMNH 1886.12.15.196 dry (NMV photos 52/24,25); BMNH 1886.12.15.197 dry; BMNH 1886.12.15.198 dry.
• Dactylia palmata Carter, H.J. 1885. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 15: 301-321 [310].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1886.12.15.200 dry (figured in Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. pl. 1 fig. 5, NMV photos 53/19,20, =AM G2855 slide - egaz), 16 fms, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E]; BMNH 1886.12.15.201 dry (NMV photo 53/21 - egaz), 16 fms, Port Phillip Heads, VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E].
• Chalinopsilla arborea Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [109] [collective name, no nominate subspecies].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) locality unknown.
• Chalinopsilla arborea macropora Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [110] [type series composite; Callyspongia tenerrima Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 is here excluded from synonymy].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1886.8.27.54 dry (Port Chalmers, =Wilsonella australiensis Carter, see Burton ms, =AM G3743 slide)), Port Phillip Heads, VIC; Port Jackson, NSW; Port Chalmers, New Zealand (Torres Strait, QLD) [38°07'S 144°48'E, 33°51'S 151°15'E, 27°34'19"S 177°59'49"E, 10°25'S 142°10'E]; ZMB 1183 3 slides (egaz), Port Phillip [38°07'S 144°48'E]; ZMB 3014 4 slides, New Zealand [27°34'19"S 177°59'49"E]; BMNH 1886.8.27.50 dry (=Wilsonella australiensis Carter, see Burton ms, NMV photo 48/4 - egaz), Torres Strait [10°25'S 142°10'E]; AM G3736 (slide ex BMNH, specimen not found, =Wilsonella australiensis Carter, see Burton, ms); BMNH 1886.12.15.200 dry (figured in Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. pl. 1 fig. 5).

  Secondary source:

   Wiedenmayer, F. 1977. Shallow-water Sponges of the Western Bahamas. Basel : Birkhäuser (Experientia Suppl. 28) 287 pp. 43 pls. [108].
• Chalinopsilla arborea micropora Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [111] [type series composite].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM Z479 dry (Port Denison, NMV photos 1/7,8 - egaz), Torres Strait, QLD; Port Denison, QLD; Port Phillip Heads, VIC; (Port Jackson, NSW); Mauritius [10°25'S 142°10'E, 38°07'S 144°48'E, 33°51'S 151°15'E, 20°13'19"S 57°35'34"E]; AM Z476 wet (Port Jackson, NMV photos 31/9–11); BMNH 1886.8.27.252 dry (Torres Strait, =Wilsonella australiensis Carter see Burton ms, =AM G3737 slide); BMNH 1886.12.15.310 dry (S Coast as Holopsamma laevis ramosa Carter ms, a Phoriospongia, NMV photo 53/18); BMNH 1886.12.15.195 dry (figured in Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. London : Trübner & Co. 936 pp. 17 figs 50 pls. pl. 1 fig. 2, NMV photo 47/6); BMNH 1886.12.15.341 dry fragment of type.
• Chalinopsilla arborea massa Lendenfeld, R. von 1889. Die Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse der Hornschwämme. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 4: 1-93 [23].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH unregistered dry (as Chalinopsilla massa, no locality, NMV photos 53/22,23 - egaz), Port Jackson, NSW; Port Chalmers, New Zealand [33°51'S 151°15'E, 27°34'19"S 177°59'49"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] [107]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Great Barrier Reef, NE coast, SE coast, Bass Strait, QLD, NSW, VIC, TAS; Port Denison, Torres Strait, Port Stephens, Port Jackson, Port Phillip Heads, Sisters Creek Beach; also Indian Ocean (?) and New Zealand.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth intertidal–100 m.

 

General References

Carpay, M. 1986. The marine sponges of Tasmania. A checklist of a number of marine sponges, occurring along the Tasmanian coast. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis, Department of Bijzondere Dierkunde, Institute of Taxonomic Zoology, Amsterdam. pp. 1–77. [34]

 

History of changes

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