WoRMS name details
Spongia tubulosa sensu Pallas, 1766
193669 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:193669)
unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Pallas, P. S. (1766). Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succintas descriptiones, cum selectis auctorum synonymis. [List of zoophytes containing general outlines of genera and brief descriptions of known species, with selected synonyms of the authors.]. <em>Fransiscum Varrentrapp, Hagae.</em> 451 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6019361
page(s): 393 [details]
page(s): 393 [details]
Note ‘Mare Americanum’
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Type locality ‘Mare Americanum’ [details]
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Spongia tubulosa sensu Pallas, 1766. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=193669 on 2025-09-12
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Nomenclature
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Pallas, P. S. (1766). Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succintas descriptiones, cum selectis auctorum synonymis. [List of zoophytes containing general outlines of genera and brief descriptions of known species, with selected synonyms of the authors.]. <em>Fransiscum Varrentrapp, Hagae.</em> 451 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6019361
page(s): 393 [details]
new combination reference Van Soest, R.W.M. (2025). Typification of Porifera described in the 10th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Naturae, volume II, 1759. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5638(1): 1-65., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5638.1.1
page(s): 28 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 393 [details]
new combination reference Van Soest, R.W.M. (2025). Typification of Porifera described in the 10th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Naturae, volume II, 1759. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5638(1): 1-65., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5638.1.1
page(s): 28 [details] Available for editors
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Synonymy Van Soest (2025: 29) pointed out that Pallas [1766: 383, see also Boddaert (1768) and Wilkens (1787)] used the combination without referring to Linnaeus (nor to Boerhaave and Van Royen, or any other author) and described under this name a clearly different sponge: ‘Spongia compressa sessilis rigidula flavescens, tubulis longitudinalibus porosa’ (i.e. flatly compressed stiff yellowish sponge with longitudinal tubules). In his further comments, Pallas stated that the flat bodies were lyingon the rocks and that they occurred in ‘Mare Americanum’. Because the description and the locality do not match with the data provided by Boerhaave, Van Royen, and Linnaeus, the combination is a junior homonym of Spongia tubulosa Linnaeus, 1759. In 1767 Linnaeus suggests Spongia tubulosa is the same as Pallas'(1766) Spongia fastigiata. Linnaeus (1767: tubulosa) and Pallas (1766: fastigiata) refer to Seba's (1743-1765), pl. 97 fig. 2, which is clearly not a sponge and probably is a Zoanthus (Cnidaria). The homonymy of Pallas' tubulosa is removed by assigning the combination to Grantia compressa. [details]
Type locality ‘Mare Americanum’ [details]
