Porifera (sponges) of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia: habitats and distributions

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ABSTRACT – This study reports on 221 species of sponges collected during two diving expeditions to the archipelago in 1998 and 1999. A further 32 species were collected from a dredge survey in 1999 and another 22 during a residential workshop in the region in 2000. The total number of species (275) reported here indicates a high sponge species richness in the Dampier Archipelago. Previsously, only 14 species of Porifera have been reported from the Dampier Archipelago, north-western Australia.