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.