Species Tedania (Tedania) anhelans (Lieberkühn, 1859)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halichondria anhelans Lieberkühn, N. 1859. Neue Beiträge zur Anatomie der Spongien. Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und Wissenschaftliche Medecin 1859: 353-382 515-529 pls 9-11 [521].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ZMB slide possibly in MJG, Adriatic Sea, Trieste.
• Reniera nigrescens Schmidt, E.O. 1862. Die Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 7 pls. [74].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MZUS P0107 dry (redescribed by Topsent, E. 1920. Spongiaires du Musée zoologique de Strasbourg. Monaxonides. Bulletin de l' Institut Océanographie de Monaco 381: 1–36 [16], as Tedania digitata, does not conform in spiculation with original description), Kvarner (as Quarnero), Yugoslavia; BMNH 1867.3.11.39 slide, Kvarner (as Quarnero), Yugoslavia; BMNH 1877.5.21.325 fragment of type, Kvarner (as Quarnero), Yugoslavia; MJG 15619 dry, Kvarner (as Quarnero), Yugoslavia.

  Secondary source:

   Topsent, E. 1920. Spongiaires du Musée zoologique de Strasbourg. Monaxonides. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco 381: 1-36 [16]; Desqueyroux-Faundez, R. & Stone, S.M. 1992. O. Schmidt Sponge Catalogue. An illustrated guide to the Graz Museum Collection, with notes on additional material. Geneva : Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle iv+190 pp. 49 pls. [17, 61] (re types).
• Reniera digitata Schmidt, E.O. 1862. Die Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 7 pls. [75].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MZUS P0105 dry, Venice; MJG 15344 wet, MJG 15335 dry, MJG 15638 (doubtful as a type see Desqueyroux-Faundez & Stone, 1992)), no locality data; BMNH 1867.3.11.44 slide; BMNH 1877.5.21.320 dry fragment of type; BMNH 1867.7.26.89 dry fragment of type.

  Secondary source:

   Desqueyroux-Faundez, R. & Stone, S.M. 1992. O. Schmidt Sponge Catalogue. An illustrated guide to the Graz Museum Collection, with notes on additional material. Geneva : Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle iv+190 pp. 49 pls. [16, 59] (re types).
• Reniera ambigua Schmidt, E.O. 1864. Supplement der Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. Enthaltend die Histiologie und systematische Ergänzungen. Leipzig : Engelmann 48 pp. 4 pls. [39].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MJG 15625 wet, Lissa?, Vis and Hvar Ils (as Lissa, Lesina), Yugoslavia; MJG 15331 dry (Lesina), Lissa?, Vis and Hvar Ils (as Lissa, Lesina), Yugoslavia; BMNH 1867.3.11.40 slide, Lissa?, Vis and Hvar Ils (as Lissa, Lesina), Yugoslavia; BMNH 1867.7.26.33 dry fragment, Lissa?, Vis and Hvar Ils (as Lissa, Lesina), Yugoslavia.

  Secondary source:

   Desqueyroux-Faundez, R. & Stone, S.M. 1992. O. Schmidt Sponge Catalogue. An illustrated guide to the Graz Museum Collection, with notes on additional material. Geneva : Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle iv+190 pp. 49 pls. [15, 57] (re types).
• Suberites panis Selenka, E. 1867. Ueber einige neue Schwämme aus der Südsee. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 17: 565-571 pl. 35 [570].

  Type data:

   Holotype Port Phillip Bay, VIC.
• Reniera muggiana Schmidt, E.O. 1868. Die Spongien der Küste von Algier. Mit Nachträgen zu den Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 44 pp. 5 pls. [28] [unnecessary replacement name for Halichondria anhelans Lieberkühn 'pars', composite in description, not in type material].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MJG 15298 wet (also labelled 'Myxilla anhelans'), Bay of Muggia, Adriatic, S of Trieste, Italy; MZUS P0104 dry, 2 specimens, Bay of Muggia, Adriatic, S of Trieste, Italy; BMNH 1867.7.26.70 dry fragment (also labelled 'Halichondria anhelans Lieberkühn, ex parte'), Bay of Muggia, Adriatic, S of Trieste, Italy; BMNH 1868.3.2.53 slide, Bay of Muggia, Adriatic, S of Trieste, Italy.
• Tedania digitata verrucosa Carter, H.J. 1886. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 17: 40-53, 112-127 [53].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1886.12.15.432 dry (=AM G2929 slide), Port Phillip Heads, VIC.
• Tedania digitata fibrosa Ridley, S.O. & Dendy, A. 1887. Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology Zool. 20(59): 1-275 pls 1-51 [51].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1887.5.2.259 wet, 11 m, off Port Jackson.
• Tedania rubicunda Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [190].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM G9146 wet (NMV photos 17/4–7), Port Jackson, NSW; BMNH 1887.1.24.5 wet (as Amorphorhaphis), Port Jackson, NSW; BMNH 1887.1.24.6, Port Jackson, NSW; BMNH 1887.1.24.7 wet (as Amorphorhaphis), Port Jackson, NSW; ZMB 1155 4 slides (as Pellina), Port Jackson, NSW.
• Clathrissa elegans Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [218] [part, type series composite].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM G9127 dry (Port Jackson, NMV photos 3/15,16), Port Jackson, NSW (Port Phillip, VIC); BMNH 1887.4.27.98 6 fragments of type(s?) (two here excluded, NMV photo 38/33, =AM G3568 slide), Port Phillip,; ZMB 2329 wet, slide, Port Phillip.
• Tedania rubra Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [191].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM G9148 wet (NMV photos 16/22–24), Port Jackson, NSW; BMNH 1887.4.27.19 wet (=AM G3361, slide as Amorphorhaphis), Port Jackson, NSW.
• Tedania assabensis Keller, C. 1891. Die Spongienfauna des rothen Meeres (2. Hälfte). Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 52: 294-368 pls 16-20 [313].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB 2925 wet, slides, 10 m, Assab, Eritrea, Red Sea.
• Tedania digitata inermis Hentschel, E. 1911. Tetraxonida. pp. 279-393, 54 figs 2. Teil. in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 3 (10). [333].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMH, 3 m, 4.5 km NW of Denham, Shark Bay, WA; 3 m, 6 km NW of Denham; 0.75–2 m, entrance, Useless Inlet; Cockburn Sound (Fremantle); ZMB 4424 fragment of type, 3 m, 4.5 km NW of Denham, Shark Bay, WA; 3 m, 6 km NW of Denham; 0.75–2 m, entrance, Useless Inlet; Cockburn Sound (Fremantle).
• Tedania digitata polytyla Hentschel, E. 1911. Tetraxonida. pp. 279-393, 54 figs 2. Teil. in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 3 (10). [333].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH, 0–1/3 m, Lagoon Point, Shark Bay, WA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Topsent, E. 1920. Spongiaires du Musée zoologique de Strasbourg. Monaxonides. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco 381: 1-36 [16]
• Burton, M. & Rao, H.S. 1932. Report on the shallow-water marine sponges in the collections of the Indian Museum, Part I. Records of the Indian Museum 34: 299-356 16 figs pl. 18 [353 in part]
• Burton, M. 1954. Sponges. In The Rosaura Expedition, Pt. 5. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 2: 215-239 pl. 9 [229 in part]
• Lévi, C. 1965. Spongiaires récoltés par l'Expédition Isralienne dans le sud de la Mer Rouge en 1962. In Israel South Red Sea Exped. Rep. (13). Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Station, Israel 40: 3-27 [17]
• Hooper, J.N.A. 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] (questions conspecificity of all these disjunct populations)
• 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] [416] (for Suberites panis Selenka, 1867)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Albany, Middleton Beach, Shark Bay, Geographe Bay, Champion Bay, Darwin, Torres Strait, Thursday and Alert Ils, Port Jackson, Port Phillip Heads, Sorrento Reef, Queenscliff Jetty, Deal Is., Maria Is., also E Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Indo-Malayan region, W central and E Pacific Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

 

General References

Burton, M. 1932. Sponges. Discovery Reports 6: 237-392 56 figs pls 48-57

Hooper, J.N.A., Capon, R.J., Keenan, C.P., Parry, D.L. & Smit, N. 1992. Chemotaxonomy of marine sponges: families Microcionidae, Raspailiidae and Axinellidae, and their relationships with other families in the orders Poecilosclerida and Axinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6(2): 261-301 [263] (Tedania digitata as Suberites panis Selenka, 1867)

Isbister, G.K. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2005. Clinical effects of stings by sponges of the genus Tedania and a review of sponge stings worldwide. Toxicon 46: 782-785 [783]

Knott, N., Underwood, A.J., Chapman, M.G. & Glasby, T.M. 2006. Growth of the encrusting sponge Tedania anhelans (Lieberkuhn) on vertical and on horizontal surfaces of temperate subtidal reefs. Marine and Freshwater Research 57: 95-104

Nevalainen, T.J., Quinn, R.J. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2004. Phospholipase A2 in Porifera. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 137(B): 413-420 [415] (Referred to as "Tedania digitata"/ listed here)

Roberts, D.E., Cummins, S.P., Davis, A.R. & Pangway, C. 1999. Evidence for symbiotic algae in sponges from temperate coastal reefs in New South Wales, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 493-498 [495] (Listed as Tedania digitata)

Thiele, J. 1903. Kieselschwämme von Ternate. II. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 25: 933-968 pl. 28 [946, pl. 28 fig. 11] (transferred to Tedania and spicules described and figured)

van Soest, R.W.M. 1987. Biogeographic and taxonomic notes on some eastern Atlantic sponges. In Jones, W.C. (ed.) European contributions to the taxonomy of sponges. Publications of the Sherkin Island Marine Station 1: 13-28 (showed that this so-called widespread species (mentioned frequently in the literature under one or more of its other synonyms) undoubtedly comprises a series of sibling species, and that Burton, M. 1932. Sponges. Discovery Report 6: 237–392 56 figs pls 48–57 lumped many of these species into one taxon without any empirical support. However, it is not yet possible to state which regional populations are valid species, or which names apply to these regional populations. For the present all these nominal species are retained as synonyms of Tedania anhelans, but a thorough revision of these species is necessary)

Wiedenmayer, F. 1989. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait (Shelf of Southern Australia). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(1): 1-242 [87]

 

History of changes

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