World Porifera Database - Species - Polyfibrospongia australis (Lendenfeld, 1888)

Porifera name details

Polyfibrospongia australis (Lendenfeld, 1888)

AphiaID

410771 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:410771)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Accepted name

Fasciospongia turgida (Lamarck, 1814)

Rank

Species

Parent

Polyfibrospongia Bowerbank, 1877

Original name

Stelospongia australis Lendenfeld, 1888

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Variety Polyfibrospongia australis var. conulata (Lendenfeld, 1888) accepted as Fasciospongia turgida (Lamarck, 1814) (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Stelospongia australis Lendenfeld, 1888) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1888). Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sidney. (Taylor & Francis: London). i-xiv, 1-260, pls 1-12.
page(s): 168-169 [details]

Taxonomic citation

de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Polyfibrospongia australis (Lendenfeld, 1888). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=410771 on 2025-05-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-08-07 07:58:14Z

created

van Soest, Rob W.M.

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Sources (3)
Documented distribution (1)

original description (of Stelospongia australis Lendenfeld, 1888) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1888). Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sidney. (Taylor & Francis: London). i-xiv, 1-260, pls 1-12.
page(s): 168-169 [details]

additional source Lévi, C. (1961). Éponges intercotidales de Nha Trang (Vietnam). <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> 100: 127-148. [details]

new combination reference Bergquist, P.R. (1961). The Keratosa (Porifera) collected by the Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition. <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir.</em> 13 (139): 207-219.
page(s): 210-211 [details]

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Introduced: alien

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