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The Kirk Collection of Sponges (Porifera) in the Zoology Museum, Victoria University College
Genus Sycon Risso 1826
Genus Sycon Risso 1826
Sycon pedicellatum Kirk
H. B. Kirk Trans.N.Z.Inst., 30, 313, Plates 21, 22 (1898)
The material comprises three syntypes, one slide of transverse sections, the two others of longitudinal sections. As the former corresponds with Kirk's published figure, Plate 21, Fig. lb, it is designated the lectotype. The locality is not stated on the material, but Kirk (1898) gave "Whangaruru, and adjacent coast of North Auckland, between tidemarks." He later found "a much finer form at Plimmerton, in Cook Strait."
Sycon carteri Dendy
A. Dendy Proc.Roy.Soc.Victoria, 5 (N.S.), 77 (1893)
No locality. Probably one of Dendy's syntypes from St. Vincent's Gulf, South Australia.
Sycon raphanus O. Schmidt
O. Schmidt Spong.Adriat.Meer., 14 (1862)
No locality. Probably one of Dendy's specimens from near Port Phillip Heads, Australia (see Dendy, 1893).
Sycon ramsayi (von Lendenfeld)
Von Lendenfeld Proc.Linn.Soc.N.S.W., 9, 1097 (1885)
No locality. Probably one of the specimens reported by Dendy (1893) from Port Jackson, Australia.
Sycon giganteum Dendy
A. Dendy Proc.Roy.Soc.Victoria, 5 (N.S.), 84 (1893)
No locality. Probably one of Dendy's syntypes (merotype) from St. Vincent's Gulf, South Australia.
Sycon ornatum Kirk
H. B. Kirk Trans.N.Z.Inst., 30, 314, Plates 21 and 22 (1898)
No trace of any type material of this species has so far been discovered. The slides, if ever they are recovered, may be recognized by the fact that they should carry Kirk's serial number 43. The original pencil sketches on which Kirk's plates are based are extant, and indicate that the type or types were prepared as both transverse sections and spicule preparations.