WoRMS name details
Echinoclathria macropora sensu Whitelegge, 1901
815617 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:815617)
unaccepted (misidentification)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Clathria macropora Lendenfeld, 1888) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1888). Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sidney. (Taylor & Francis: London). i-xiv, 1-260, pls 1-12. [details] 
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2026). World Porifera Database. Echinoclathria macropora sensu Whitelegge, 1901. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=815617 on 2026-09-26
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Clathria macropora Lendenfeld, 1888) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1888). Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sidney. (Taylor & Francis: London). i-xiv, 1-260, pls 1-12. [details]
basis of record Whitelegge, T. (1901). Report on sponges from the coastal beaches of New South Wales. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 4 (2): 55-118, pls X-XV. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.4.1901.1085
page(s): 65 [details]
basis of record Whitelegge, T. (1901). Report on sponges from the coastal beaches of New South Wales. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 4 (2): 55-118, pls X-XV. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.4.1901.1085
page(s): 65 [details]
Other
additional source
Hooper, J.N.A. (1996). Revision of Microcionidae (Porifera: Poecilosclerida: Demospongiae), with description of Australian species. <em>Memoirs of the Queensland Museum.</em> 40: 1-626., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40092950
page(s): 271 [details]
page(s): 271 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Identification The highly complex historical problem with the taxon name "macropora" allocated within the genera Clathria, Echinoclathria, Plectispa and Holompsamma was due to Lendenfeld's (1888) use of multiple (unrelated) specimens to represent a single taxon concept, when these represented at least three species. See Remarks for the species Clathria (Isociella) macropora Lendenfeld, 1886 (Hooper, 1999: 271) and Holopsamma macropora (Lendenfeld, 1888) (Hooper, 1999: 499) [details]
