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Spongionella Bowerbank, 1862 
AphiaID: 131748

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dendroceratida (Order) > Dictyodendrillidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Spongia pulchella Sowerby, 1804 (type by monotypy)
Parent Dictyodendrillidae Bergquist, 1980
Synonymised
taxa
  Megalopastas Dendy, 1905 (junior synonym)
Phyllospongia (Spongionella) (Bowerbank, 1862) (junior synonym)
Velinea Vosmaer, 1883 (junior synonym)
Sources  original description: Bowerbank, J.S. 1862b. On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part III On the Generic Characters, the Specific Characters, and on the Method of Examination. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 152(2): 1087-1135, pls LXXII-LXXIV. [details] [full text]

additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103 (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-306-47260-0. xix, 1-1101, 1103-1706 (2 volumes) pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Lendenfeld, R. Von 1889a. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges.(Trübner and Co.: London): iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50. [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Spongionella depressa Topsent, 1929
Species Spongionella foliascens Kelly-Borges, Pomponi & Vacelet, 1993
Species Spongionella gracilis (Vosmaer, 1883)
Species Spongionella monoprocta Lévi, 1961
Species Spongionella nigra Dendy, 1889
Species Spongionella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804)
Species Spongionella pulvilla (Dendy, 1905)
Species Spongionella ramodigitata (Topsent, 1901)
Species Spongionella regularis (Ridley, 1881)
Species Spongionella repens (Thiele, 1905)
Species Spongionella retiara (Dendy, 1916)
Species Spongionella tubulosa Burton, 1937

Species Spongionella carteri (Burton, 1930) accepted as Spongionella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804)
Species Spongionella chondrodes de Laubenfels, 1954 accepted as Fasciospongia chondrodes (de Laubenfels, 1954)
Species Spongionella frondosa sensu Burton, 1959 accepted as Cacospongia symbiotica Burton, 1959
Species Spongionella holdsworthi Bowerbank, 1873 accepted as Phyllospongia papyracea (Esper, 1794)
Species Spongionella repens (Topsent, 1928) accepted as Spongionella depressa Topsent, 1929
Species Spongionella schmidti (Marenzeller, 1878) accepted as Spongionella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804)
Species Spongionella zetlandica (Bowerbank, 1866) accepted as Spongionella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131748
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2005-08-01 12:12:31Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-06-03 18:35:14Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongionella Bowerbank, 1862. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M. (2013) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131748 on 2013-05-20
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