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Title: The Kirk Collection of Sponges (Porifera) in the Zoology Museum, Victoria University College

Author: H. Barraclough Fell

Publication details: Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington

Part of: Zoology Publications from Victoria University of Wellington

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The Kirk Collection of Sponges (Porifera) in the Zoology Museum, Victoria University College

Genus Synute Dendy 1892

Genus Synute Dendy 1892

Synute pulchella Dendy

A. Dendy Proc.Roy.Soc.Victoria, 4 (N.S.), 1, (1892)

Holotype (merotype) from near Port Phillip Heads, Australia, coll. J. B. Wilson. Dendy states that only a single specimen was obtained.

Synute dendyi (Kirk)

H. B. Kirk Trans.N.Z.Inst., 27, 287, (1895) (Sycon dendyi)

The syntypes comprise longitudinal, transverse, and sagittal sections and also a spicule preparation. One slide is designated as the lectotype. The locality is not precisely known. Kirk (1895) gave "Cook Strait; Hokianga Heads," in that order. The species falls in Synute.