Dysidea hirciniformis sensu Dendy 1924

• Main Authors: Mc Cormack, Samuel P., Kelly, Michelle, Battershill, Christopher N.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Demospongiae; Dictyoceratida; Dysideidae; Dysidea; Dysidea hirciniformis; Antarctic; Pacific; New Zealand; North Cape; Buff; Bay of Plenty; Harbour Bay; Ridley; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3857201; https://zenodo.org/record/3857201

Dysidea hirciniformis (Carter, 1885a) sensu Dendy (1924) Dendy (1924) considered his highly characteristic, thin, ramose, deep subtidal North Cape specimens, to be similar to Dysidea hirciniformis , from Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Lendenfeld (1889) described them as forming a bunch of cylindrical, digitate, upright branches, about 15 mm thick, 150 mm long, with a conulose surface, conules being 2.5 mm high and the same distance apart, with rare oscules, 3–4 mm diameter. The colour in life was pale buff with purple tips and the fibres were packed with sand-grains, the primary fibres 180 µm thick, secondary fibres 80–150 µm thick, forming a mesh about 80 µm wide (Lendenfeld 1889: 665). Without histological examination of the original specimens and comparison with Dendy’s material, it is impossible to say with certainty whether the name hirciniformis is valid for the North Cape specimens: Dendy (1924: 384) indicated that there were differences. Despite the disjunct distribution, the likelihood of conspecificity of North Cape specimens with a South Australian species is moderate, as there are several clear precedents including Polymastia cf. massalis Carter, 1886 (in Kelly-Borges & Bergquist 1997), Tethya bergquistae Hooper in Hooper & Wiedenmayer, 1994 (in Bergquist & Kelly-Borges 1991), and Chondropsis kirkii (Bowerbank, 1841), Crella incrustans (Carter, 1885b), Callyspongia ramosa (Gray, 1843), Callyspongia cf. annulata (Ridley & Dendy, 1886), and Dactylia varia (Gray, 1843) (in Kelly & Herr 2018). : Published as part of Mc Cormack, Samuel P., Kelly, Michelle & Battershill, Christopher N., 2020, Description of two new species of Dysidea (Porifera, Demospongiae, Dictyoceratida Dysideidae) from Tauranga Harbour, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, pp. 523-542 in Zootaxa 4780 (3) on page 538, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4780.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/3855331 : {"references": ["Carter, H. J. (1885 a) Descriptions of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 5, 15 (87), 196 - 222. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222938509459319", "Dendy, A. (1924) Porifera. Part I. Non-Antarctic sponges. Natural history report. British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 1910, Zoology, 6 (3), 269 - 392, pls. I-XV.", "Lendenfeld, R. V. (1889) A Monograph of the horny sponges. Trubner and Co., London, 936 + 3 (iii-iv), pls. 1 - 50.", "Carter, H. J. (1886) Descriptions of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and magazines of natural history, 5, 119 - 121. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222938609460109", "Kelly-Borges, M. & Bergquist, P. R. (1997) Revision of Southwest Pacific Polymastiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with descriptions of new species of Polymastia Bowerbank, Tylexocladus Topsent, and Acanthopolymastia gen. nov. from New Zealand and the Norfolk Ridge, New Caledonia. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 31 (3), 367 - 402. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00288330.1997.9516772", "Hooper, J. N. A. & Wiedenmayer, F. (1994) Porifera. In: Wells, A. (Ed.), Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 12. CSIRO, Melbourne, pp. 1 - 620.", "Bergquist, P. R. & Kelly-Borges, M. (1991) An evaluation of the genus Tethya (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with descriptions of new species from the Southwest Pacific. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, 8 (1), 37 - 72.", "Bowerbank, J. S. (1841) Descriptions of three species of sponge, containing some new forms of organization. Microscopical Journal London, 1, 161 - 162. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2818.1841. tb 06423. x", "Carter, H. J. (1885 b) Descriptions of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 5, 16 (94), 277 - 368. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222938509459882", "Gray, J. E. (1843) Additional radiated animals and annelides. In: Dieffenbach, E. (Ed.), Fauna of New Zealand. Travels in New Zealand. John Murray, London, pp. 292 - 295.", "Ridley, S. O. & Dendy, A. (1886) Preliminary report on the Monaxonida collected by H. M. S. Challenger. Part I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 18, 325 - 493. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222938609459982", "Kelly, M. & Herr, B. (2018) Splendid sponges, a guide to the sponges of New Zealand. Version 3. Available from: http: // www. niwa. co. nz / coasts-and-oceans / marine-identification-guides-and-fact-sheets (accessed 21 August 2019)"]}