Cymbastela lamellata is a common southern New Zealand and subantarctic species typically found on the rock faces and canyons of Fiordland deep reefs, between about 10–30 m depth. New Zealand Coastal Marine Invertebrates 1. Class Demospongiae Order Axinellida Family Axinellidae. main image inset image NIWA Bruce Boyd. 292–295 In Dieffenbach, E., Travels in New Zealand; with Contributions to the Geography, Geology, Botany and Natural History of the Country.
Found elsewhere in New Zealand, from the North Cape, Three Kings and Poor Knights Islands, along the east coast to Ranfurly Banks at the East Cape, Kaikoura, Marlborough Sounds, Mernoo Bank and Doubtful Sound, Fiordland. New Zealand Coastal Marine Invertebrates 1. 122 in Marine Sponges: Forty-six Sponges in Northern New Zealand, 149 p. Class Demospongiae Order Bubarida Family Desmanthidae. Cliona celata is a common species in the Northern Hemisphere; The New Zealand specimens are remarkably similar in appearance, but differ in spicule details and are predominantly orange rather than yellow.
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir in Marine sponges: Forty-six sponges from northern New Zealand. It is most likely that the New Zealand specimens are endemic, but the genus has few characters by which to differentiate species, lacking mineral spicules. Until the New Zealand material is formally redescribed and renamed, it should be referred to as Darwinella cf. gardineri, rather than Darwinella gardineri.
Reported from the Stewart and Chatham Islands, and the Auckland Islands in the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands region.
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The oscules are small with a thin membranous edge and are sparsely scattered over the surface of the mushroom. The inner concave surface of the bowl or top of the mound is perforated with many fine raised points, and the surface between them is raised with fine small tapers. In northern Taranaki Bay on deep coastal sand ridges and canyons between 170–240 m. 1998) Revision of the genus Psammocinia (Porifera: Demospongiae: Dictyoceratida) with six new species from New Zealand.
1998) Revision of the genus Psammocinia (Porifera: Demospongiae: Dictyoceratida), with six new species from New Zealand. New Zealand Coastal Marine Invertebrates 1. 1998) Revision of the genus Psammocinia (Porifera: Demospongiae: Dictyoceratida), with six new species from New Zealand. Gordon (Ed), New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity Volume 1, Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, and Deuterostomia, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, 566 pp.
In New Zealand, the species is known from Fiordland, Chatham Rise, Stewart Island and the Bounty Plateau, between 10–155 m. Like many other sponges of the same distribution, the species may have been introduced historically, but the direction is unknown. turgida is native to New Zealand and Australia. This species forms a tuft of cylindrical fingers; Dendy considered the New Zealand specimens to be "merely a more robust form" of the South Australian species.
The New Zealand specimens all have solitary, elliptical, unbranched bodies and have recently been identified as being close to Taonura marginalis, also from South Australia. Typically found under boulders, ledges and in recesses in rock walls on the west coast of the North Island (Anawhata, Piha) and in Manukau Harbor (Cornwallis, Mill Bay). When removed from the water, this sponge appears shiny due to the reflection of the surface membrane and skeleton.
Haliclona venustina is a relatively common intertidal sponge covering mudstones, oysters, bryozoans and tubeworms around the Auckland isthmus, including Cornwallis at Manukau Harbor and North Piha on the west coast of the North Island. Subtidal samples have been recorded as far north as the Three Kings, Whangarei, the outer islands of the Hauraki Gulf and Tasman Bay, Marlborough. The surface is fuzzy to the touch but appears smooth, the inner surface of each tube has abundant small muscles from which the water stream exits at the top of the tube.
Very common along the northeastern coastline of the North Island and offshore islands on shallow rock flats, rock slopes, sandy areas around the base of reefs, and in macroalgal forests, up to about 20 m. Callyspongia annulata was first described from Bass Strait, Tasmania and strongly resembles our New Zealand species commonly referred to as C.
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Dactylia varia is very common around the New Zealand coastline and is often found on beaches and excavated from seabeds of sand shell hash, attached to shells and rubble. In: Dieffenbach, E., Travels in New Zealand; with Contributions to the Country's Geography, Geology, Botany and Natural History. The New Zealand specimens were considered very close in all characters except external shape (the Australian species is massive with digital projection), a difference considered insufficient to differentiate the New Zealand specimens as a new species.
The surface is smooth, felt-like, the stones have a diameter of up to 5 mm and are visible on the surface and edges of palm specimens and aligned on the sides of the branches. The surface is fleshy, membranous, with a pustular to cone-shaped surface and large, slightly raised bones, up to 10 mm in diameter. This species was first described at Port Philip Heads, South Australia, and is extremely common throughout New Zealand in a number of sheltered and exposed habitats, including under intertidal rock edges, shallow coastal rocky reefs, and deeper seamounts and continental shelf banks.
Branching mushrooms can grow to 50 cm high, branches merge into sheets up to 40 cm wide, typically around 10-20 cm high and wide. An uncommon species found off northern New Zealand from Middlesex Bank (108-174 m) to Three Kings Islands, North Cape, Rodney Coast and Hauraki Gulf outer islands, Mahia Peninsula, Ranfuly Banks off East Cape and Chatham Rise, from c . 180m main image inset image Phil Boyd Crispin Middleton Crispin Middleton. Spherical to hemispherical bread-like mushroom, up to approx. 20 cm in diameter and typically 6-8 cm thick.
Elongated hemispherical, bread-like sponge, up to about 15 cm in diameter and usually 6–9 cm thick, meandering along the rocky substrate. Surface covered with low broad conical papillae up to 10 mm high, single oscules located at ends of exserted papillae, surface may be quite smooth in exposed places. Also reported from Kaikoura (20m) and the east coast of the South Island to 120m. 1997) Revision of the Southwest Pacific Polymastiidae (Porifera, Demospongia, Hadromerida) with descriptions of new species of Polymastia Bowerbank, Tylexocladus Topsent and Acanthopolymastia nov. from New Zealand and Norfolk Ridge, New Caledonia.
Surface covered with low broad conical papillae up to 10 mm high, oscules located at the ends of the higher and broader extrudate papillae. Thick compressive sponge, circular to oval in profile, up to 20 cm long, usually 5-20 mm thick. Surface covered with densely packed conical papillae up to 15 mm high, oscules located at ends of excretory papillae.
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir Review of the Southwestern Pacific Polymastiidae (Porifera, Demospongia, Hadromerida) with descriptions of new species Polymastia Bowerbank, Tylexocladus Topsent and Acanthopolymastia nov. from New Zealand and the Norfolk Ridge, New Caledonia. Reported from Doubtful Sound to 100 feet. 96 in marine sponges: forty-six sponges in northern New Zealand.
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Surface covered with characteristic long exhalation papillae within which are 5–10 ossules, and shorter cone-shaped blind inhalation papillae. Color in life brilliant burnt umber, color extends to 50 mm in the sponge, internal color is brownish orange. This species is relatively common on rock reefs around the Northland coast, from Spirits Bay south, including the offshore islands, between 10–60 m.
1997) A revision of the Southwestern Pacific Polymastiidae (Porifera, Demospongia, Hadromerida) with descriptions of the new species Polymastia Bowerbank, Tylexocladus Topsent and Acanthopolymastia nov. from New Zealand and the Norfolk Reef in New Caledonia. Class Demospongiae Order Polymastiidae Family Polymastiidae. main image inset image Patrick L. Colin Tony Ayling Crispin Middleton. A thick encrusted mass of fused lobes, 1–4 cm wide, 2–4 cm thick, maximum length 50 cm, each lobe representing a single sponge confluent with an adjacent, extending mass along the substratum.
Oscules are compound and raised on the apex of each lobe, often aligned in groups across the top of the lobe, sometimes with ragged edges, 3-5 mm in diameter. Color mustard yellow in life, externally mottled with black or almost completely black when fully illuminated. Loosely attached to rocky substrate, occasionally found on vertical cliff faces and in caves up to 20 m deep on exposed Three Kings Islands and Cape Brett, Northland.
A redescription of Aaptos aaptos with descriptions of new species of Aaptos (Hadromerida: Suberitidae) from northern New Zealand. The image on page 114 (“Aaptos confertus” in this publication is incorrect as it concerns Polymastia cf massalis. Spherical sponge up to 10 cm in diameter, attached to hard rock or mudstone by a broad basal skirt.
Surface slightly inflated and covered with blunt conules 2–4 mm high, oscules collected in one or more apical pits, some may be surrounded by a raised rim. Common subtidal in shallow reef and harbor environments and on deeper rocky reefs to about 70m east of Northland from Three Kings south to Rodney. A redescription of Aaptos aaptos with descriptions of new species of Aaptos (Hadromerida: Suberitidae) from northern New Zealand.
