original description
(of ) Dendy, A. (1905). Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman,at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>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).</em> Pp. 57-246, pls I-XVI.
page(s): 136-137 [details] 
additional source
Burton, M. (1928). Report on some Deep-Sea Sponges from the Indian Museum collected by R.I.M.S. ‘Investigator'. Part II. Tetraxonida (concluded) and Euceratosa. <em>Records of the Indian Museum.</em> 30 (1): 109-138., available online at https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v30/i1/1928/163204
page(s): 114-115; note: Species name spelled originally as canaliculata, but corrected to agree in gender. [details] 
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Synonymy Synonymy suggested by Burton (1959) with Oceanapia sagittaria unlikely. [details]