Australian Museum Journal Fresh-water sponges from Australia and New Zealand
- Shortform:
- Gee, 1931, Rec. Aust. Mus. 18(2): 25–62
- Author(s):
- Gee, Nathaniel Gist
- Year published:
- 1931
- Title:
- Fresh-water sponges from Australia and New Zealand
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 18
- Issue:
- 2
- Start page:
- 25
- End page:
- 62
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.18.1931.716
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 15 January 1931
- Cover date:
- 15 January 1931
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Digitized:
- 05 February 2009
- Available online:
- 05 March 2009
- Reference number:
- 716
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (117kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (3737kb PDF)
Abstract
Mr. L. P. Capewell, as far as we can discover from available literature, was the first person to collect a fresh-water sponge in Australia. This sponge was collected in Lake Hindmarsh, Victoria. Dr. J. S. Bowerbank in 1863 described this sponge as a new species and illustrated it with a good drawing. The sponge being a new one was named for the finder and was called Spongilla capewelli; now that the nomenclature has changed somewhat, this species becomes known as (1) Ephydatia capewelli (Bowerbank). Mr. H. J. Carter, writing in 1881, improved the original description somewhat. Later writers have also mentioned this form, but have added very little to the splendid descriptive notes made by Bowerbank and Carter.