Stelletta purpurea Ridley, 1884 
AphiaID: 169983

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Ancorinidae (Family) > Stelletta (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Stelletta Schmidt, 1862
Synonymised taxa		Myriastra biformis Brøndsted, 1924 (junior synonym) Myriastra purpurea (Ridley, 1884) (reverted genus transfer) Myriastra purpurea f. paucistella (Ridley, 1884) (genus transfer and junior synonym) Myriastra simplicifurca Sollas, 1886 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Pilochrota cingalensis Sollas, 1886 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Pilochrota haeckeli Sollas, 1886 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Pilochrota hornelli Dendy, 1905 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Pilochrota lendenfeldi Sollas, 1886 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Pilochrota longancora Sollas, 1886 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Stelletta bougainvillea Lendenfeld, 1907 (junior synonym) Stelletta brunnea Thiele, 1900 (junior synonym) Stelletta dolabra Lendenfeld, 1907 (junior synonym) Stelletta haeckeli (Sollas, 1888) (junior synonym) Stelletta inconspicua Thiele, 1898 (junior synonym) Stelletta nereis Lendenfeld, 1907 (junior synonym) Stelletta pilula Lebwohl, 1914 (junior synonym) Stelletta pilula var. maior Lebwohl, 1914 (junior synonym) Stelletta pilula var. media Lebwohl, 1914 (junior synonym) Stelletta pilula var. minor Lebwohl, 1914 (junior synonym) Stelletta purpurea var. grisea Hentschel, 1909 (junior synonym) Stelletta purpurea var. parvistella Ridley, 1884 (junior synonym) Stelletta purpurea var. retroflexa Ridley, 1884 (junior synonym) Stelletta reniformis Kieschnick, 1896 (junior synonym) Stelletta renilla Lendenfeld, 1903 (junior synonym) Stelletta ternatensis Thiele, 1900 (junior synonym) Stelletta tuber Hentschel, 1912 (junior synonym) Stelletta tuberosa Hentschel, 1909 (junior synonym)
Sources		original description: Ridley, S.O. 1884a. Spongiida. Pp. 366-482, pls 39-43; 582-630, pls 53-54. In: Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert’, 1881-2. (British Museum (Natural History): London). [details] [full text] additional source: Kelly, M. (2009). Demospongiae, Calcarea (Porifera). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 41: 47-114 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Pulitzer-Finali, G. 1993. A collection of marine sponges from East Africa. Annales Museo Civico Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 89: 247-350. [details] original description (from synonym): Brøndsted, H.V. 1924b. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen’s Pacific Expedition 1914-16. XXIII. Sponges from New Zealand. Part I. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 77: 435-483. [details] [view taxon] [full text] original description (from synonym): Sollas, W.J. 1886a. Preliminary account of the Tetractinellid sponges Dredged by H.M.S. ‘Challenger’ 1872-76. Part I. The Choristida. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society (new series) 5:177-199. [details] [view taxon] [full text] original description (from synonym): Sollas, W.J. 1888. Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, 1873-1876. Zoology 25(63): 1-458, pls I-XLIV, 1 map. [details] [view taxon] [full text] original description (from synonym): Dendy, A. 1905. Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman,at Ceylon, in 1902. Pp. 57-246, pls I-XVI. In: Herdman, W.A. (Ed.), Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. 3(Supplement 18). (Royal Society: London). [details] [view taxon] [full text] original description (from synonym): Thiele, J. 1900. Kieselschwämme von Ternate. I. Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft.Frankfurt 25: 19-80. [details] [view taxon] [full text] original description (from synonym): Kieschnick, O. 1896. Silicispongiae von Ternate nach den Sammlungen von Herrn Prof. Dr. W. Kükenthal. Zoologischer Anzeiger 19(520):526-534. [details] [view taxon] [full text] original description (from synonym): Lendenfeld, R. Von 1907a. Die Tetraxonia. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf der Dampfer Valdivia 1898-1899 11(1-2): i-iv, 59-374, pls IX-XLVI. [details] [view taxon] [full text] original description (from synonym): Thiele, J. 1898. Studien über pazifische Spongien. I. Japanische Demospongien. Zoologica. Original-Abhandlungen aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Zoologie. Stuttgart 24(1): 1-72, pls I-VIII. [details] [view taxon] [full text] original description (from synonym): Lebwohl, F. 1914b. Japanische Tetraxonida, III. Euastrosa und IV.Sterrastrosa. Journal of the College of Sciences, Imperial University of Tokyo 35(5): 1-70, pls I-II. [details] [view taxon] [full text] original description (from synonym): Lendenfeld, R. Von 1903. Porifera. Tetraxonia. Pp. vi-xv, 1-168. In:Schulze, Franz Eilhard (Ed.), Das Tierreich. 19. (Friedländer: Berlin). [details] [view taxon] [full text] original description (from synonym): Hentschel, E. 1912. Kiesel- und Hornschwämme der Aru- und Kei-Inseln. Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft 34(3): 293-448, pls 13-21. [details] [view taxon] [full text] original description (from synonym): Hentschel, E. 1909. Tetraxonida. I. Teil. Pp. 347-402, pls XXII-XXIII.In: Michaelsen,W. & Hartmeyer, R. (Eds), Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens.Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905.Volume 2(21). (Fischer: Jena). [details] [view taxon] [full text] additional source (from synonym): Samaai, T. 2006. Biodiversity "hotspots", patterns of richness and endemism, and distribution of marine sponges in South Africa based on actual and interpolation data: A comparative approach. Zootaxa 1358: 1-37. [details] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): Bergquist, P.R. 1961a. Demospongiae (Porifera) of the Chatham Islands and Chatham Rise, collected by the Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin [New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 13]139(5): 169-206. [details] [view taxon] [full text] additional source (from synonym): Lévi, C. 1958. Résultats scientifiques des Campagnes de la ‘Calypso’.Campagne 1951-1952 en Mer Rouge (suite). 11. Spongiaires de Mer Rouge recueillis par la ‘Calypso’ (1951-1952). Annales de l’Institut océanographique 34(3): 3-46. [details] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): Lévi, C. 1965a. Spongiaires récoltés par l’expédition israélienne dans le sud de la Mer Rouge en 1962. Pp. 3-27. In: Israel South Red Sea Expedition,1962, Report 13. Bulletin. Sea Fisheries Research Station, Israel, (39). [details] [view taxon] [full text] additional source (from synonym): Thomas, P.A. 1973a. Marine Demospongiae of Mahe Island in the Seychelles Bank (Indian Ocean). Annales du Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale. Série in 8vo. Sciences zoologiques (203): 1-96, pls 1-8. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] [full text] additional source (from synonym): Thomas, P.A. 1981. A second collection of marine Demospongiae from Mahe Island in the Seychelles Bank (Indian Ocean). Annalen. Reeks in 8 - Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: zoologische wetenschappen, 233. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: Tervuren, Belgium. 54 plates pp. [details] [view taxon] [full text] additional source (from synonym): Thomas, P.A. 1979. Studies on sponges of the Mozambique channel. I. Sponges of the Inhaca Island. II. Sponges of Mambone and Paradise Islands. Annales du Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale, Sciences zoologiques 227: 1-73, pls I-III. [details] [view taxon] [full text] additional source (from synonym): Austin, W.C. 1996. Sponges from Rocas Alijos. In: Monographiae Biologicae. Rocas Alijos. Scientific Results from the Cordell Expeditions (R.W. Schmieder Editor). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London. Vol. 75: 237-256. [details] [view taxon] new combination reference (from synonym): Lévi, C. (1967). Spongiaires d'Afrique du Sud. (3) Tetractinellides. Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr. 37: 227-256, pls XVII-XIX (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): Dendy, A.; Burton, M. 1926. Report on some deep-sea sponges from the Indian Museum collected by the R.I.M.S. ‘Investigator’. Part I. Hexactinellida and Tetractinellida (pars). Records of the Indian Museum 28 (4): 225-248. [details] [view taxon] [full text] misapplication: Burton, M. 1929a. Porifera. Part II. Antarctic sponges. British Antarctic (‘Terra Nova’) Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report, London, British Museum (Natural History). Zoology 6(4): 393-458,pls I-V. [details] [full text]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Variety Stelletta purpurea var. grisea Hentschel, 1909 accepted as Stelletta purpurea Ridley, 1884 Variety Stelletta purpurea var. parvistella Ridley, 1884 accepted as Stelletta purpurea Ridley, 1884 Variety Stelletta purpurea var. retroflexa Ridley, 1884 accepted as Stelletta purpurea Ridley, 1884
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Andaman and Nicobar Islands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Arafura Sea [details] Australia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Bassian [details] Bismarck Sea [details] Bonaparte Coast [details] Central and Southern Great Barrier Reef [details] Central Kuroshio Current [details] Central New Zealand [details] Chatham Island (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Delagoa [details] East African Coral Coast [details] Exmouth to Broome [details] Halmahera [details] Houtman [details] Indian Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Indonesia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Indo-Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Inhaca Island (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Japan (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mahe Island (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mascarene Islands [details] Mexican part of the North Pacific Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mombasa [details] Natal (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] New Zealand (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North Kenya Banks [details] Northern and Central Red Sea [details] Northern Monsoon Current Coast [details] Pacific Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Palawan/North Borneo [details] Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Ross Sea (probably not valid) [details] Saudi Arabian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychelles [details] Shark Bay [details] South India and Sri Lanka [details] Southern Red Sea [details] Sri Lanka (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Torres Strait Northern Great Barrier Reef [details] Um Aaabak (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Specimens		Syntype (from synonym): SMF 611, locality Indonesia (Moluccas, Ternate) [view taxon] Syntype (from synonym): ZMB 3153, locality Indonesia (Moluccas, Ternate) [view taxon] Syntype (from synonym): SMF 672, locality Indonesia (Moluccas, Ternate) [view taxon] Syntype (from synonym): ZMB 3165, locality Indonesia (Moluccas, Ternate) [view taxon]
Links		To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life
Note		Type locality: NE Australia [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:169983
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2005-07-10 18:05:41Z   created   db_admin 2005-07-14 06:54:12Z   changed   Amelinckx, Simon 2005-12-10 09:33:16Z   changed   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2008-06-24 18:34:24Z   checked   van Soest, Rob
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		Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Stelletta purpurea Ridley, 1884. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M. (2013) World Porifera database. Accessed through: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M. (2013) World Porifera database at http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=169983 on 2013-06-18