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Distribution. Axinella aruensis is a common species widely distributed through the Central West Pacific. Based on the material examined, its distribution can be extended to the Banda Sea, Sulawesi Sea / Makassar Strait and Lesser Sunda MEOW ecoregions of the Western Coral Triangle province (Fig. 2). It’s been recorded also for Sahul Shelf, Eastern Coral Triangle (Alvarez & Hooper 2009) and Northwest Australian Shelf provinces (Alvarez & Fromont unpublished results). The species is found from intertidal down to 50 m depth and even deeper in the Northwest Australian Shelf (Fromont & Alvarez, unpublished results).
Sumber: Sponges of the family Axinellidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) in Indonesia