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

Genus Heteropegma Polejaeff 1883 — Heteropegma nodus-gordii Polejaeff

Genus Heteropegma Polejaeff 1883

Heteropegma nodus-gordii Polejaeff

N. Polejaeff Challenger Rpts., Zoology, 8 (24), 45 (1883)

Syntype (merotype), from Torres Straits, Challenger Station 186, Sept. 8 1874, eight fathoms, coral sand, B.M.27. The slide is a section evidently cut from a block made by Dendy of "a portion of Polejaeff's type specimen in the British Museum" (vide Dendy, 1893, p. 113). This species is the genotype.