Carteriuspongla caliciformis, Gunther & Dallas & Carruthers & Francis, 1885

Gunther, Albert C. L. G., Dallas, William S., Carruthers, William & Francis, William, 1885, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology, Reptiles and Batrachians from Brazil, LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.; SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.; KENT AND CO.,; WHITT AKER AND CO.: BAILLIERE, PARIS: MACLACHLAN AND STEWART, EDINBURGH: HODGES, FOSTER, AND CO., DUBLIN: AND ASHER, BERLIN: TAYLOR AND FRANCIS, pp. 1-96 : 221-222

Carteriuspongla caliciformis , n. sp.

Specimen dry, thin, shallow, cup-like, with wide undulating brim, short thick stem, and small, erect, proliferous crest in the bottom. Consistence firm. Colour now light grey. Surface arenaceous, uniformly granulated. Pores on the outer and vents on the inner side of the cup among the granulations. Wall almost entirely composed of short-jointed keratose fibre of a sponge-yellow colour, in which there is very little sand, and that chiefly towards the surface, while there is a great deal outside the fibre in the adjoining sarcode. Size of specimen 6 in. across the brim, 1 in. deep in the centre, | in. through the wall in the centre, diminishing towards the circumference.

Hab. Marine.

Loc. Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Depth?

Obs. The pores being in the dermal incrustation outside, while the vents are immediately opposite, in the dermal incrustation of the cup inside, causes the wall, when the incrustations on both sides are washed off, to present a sievelike. structure.