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Hippospongia Schulze, 1879 
AphiaID: 131757

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Spongiidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Spongia equina Schmidt, 1862 (type by subsequent designation)
Parent Spongiidae Gray, 1867
Synonymised
taxa
  Aphrodite Lendenfeld, 1886 (junior synonym)
Ceratodendron Marshall, 1877 (preoccupied and junior synonym)
Hippiospongia de Laubenfels, 1936 (junior synonym)
Silicifibris Lendenfeld, 1886 (junior synonym)
Sources  original description: Schulze, F.E. 1879b. Untersuchungen über den Bau und die Entwicklung der Spongien. Siebente Mittheilung. Die Familie der Spongidae. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 32: 593-660, pls XXXIV-XXXVIII. [details]

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]

basis of record (from synonym): Hooper, J.N.A.; Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. Pp. 1-620. In: Wells, A. (Ed.), Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 12. (CSIRO: Melbourne)., available online at http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/PORIFERA/checklist#selected [details] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Lendenfeld, R. Von 1886d [1885]. A Monograph of the Australian Sponges. Part V. The Auleninae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10 (3): 282-325, pls 26-35. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

original description (from synonym): Marshall, W. 1877. Spongiologische Mittheilungen. Amtlicher Berichtder 50. Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte in München:187. [details] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Laubenfels, M.W. De 1936a. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Carnegie Institute of Washington (Tortugas Laboratory Paper N° 467) 30: 1-225, pls 1-22. [details] [view taxon]

additional source (from synonym): Van Soest, R.W.M. 1978. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part I. Keratosa. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 94. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 56 (179): 1–94. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

original description (from synonym): Lendenfeld, R. Von 1886g [1885]. A Monograph of the Australian Sponges. Part VI. The Genus Euspongia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10(3): 481-553, pls 36-38. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

All child
taxa

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 Species Hippospongia ammata de Laubenfels, 1954
Species Hippospongia anfractuosa (Carter, 1885)
Species Hippospongia canaliculata (Lendenfeld, 1886)
  » Variety Hippospongia canaliculata var. cylindrica Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Hippospongia cylindrica Lendenfeld, 1889
» Variety Hippospongia canaliculata var. dura Lendenfeld, 1886 accepted as Hippospongia canaliculata (Lendenfeld, 1886)
» Variety Hippospongia canaliculata var. elastica Lendenfeld, 1886 accepted as Hippospongia canaliculata (Lendenfeld, 1886)
» Variety Hippospongia canaliculata var. flabellum Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Hippospongia canaliculata (Lendenfeld, 1886)
» Variety Hippospongia canaliculata var. microtuba Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Hippospongia canaliculata (Lendenfeld, 1886)
» Variety Hippospongia canaliculata var. mollissima Lendenfeld, 1886 accepted as Hippospongia canaliculata (Lendenfeld, 1886)
» Variety Hippospongia canaliculata var. typica Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Hippospongia typica Lendenfeld, 1889
Species Hippospongia cerebrum Lendenfeld, 1889
Species Hippospongia communis (Lamarck, 1814)
  » Subspecies Hippospongia communis ammata de Laubenfels, 1954 accepted as Hippospongia ammata de Laubenfels, 1954
Species Hippospongia cylindrica Lendenfeld, 1889
Species Hippospongia decidua (Hyatt, 1877)
Species Hippospongia densa Lendenfeld, 1889
Species Hippospongia derasa Ridley, 1884
Species Hippospongia elastica Lendenfeld, 1889
Species Hippospongia fistulosa Lendenfeld, 1889
Species Hippospongia galea (Lendenfeld, 1886)
Species Hippospongia gossypina (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Species Hippospongia lachne (de Laubenfels, 1936)
Species Hippospongia laxa Lendenfeld, 1889
Species Hippospongia massa Lendenfeld, 1889
Species Hippospongia mauritiana (Hyatt, 1877)
Species Hippospongia micropora (Lendenfeld, 1889)
Species Hippospongia mollissima (Lendenfeld, 1889)
Species Hippospongia multicia Hooper & Wiedenmayer, 1994
Species Hippospongia nigra (Lendenfeld, 1886)
Species Hippospongia osculata Lendenfeld, 1889
Species Hippospongia pacifica (Hyatt, 1877)
Species Hippospongia seposita Hooper & Wiedenmayer, 1994
Species Hippospongia typica Lendenfeld, 1889

Species Hippospongia anomala Polejaeff, 1884 accepted as Hyattella intestinalis (Lamarck, 1814)
Species Hippospongia aphroditella Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Coscinoderma nardorus (Lendenfeld, 1886)
Species Hippospongia aruensis (Hentschel, 1912) accepted as Ircinia aruensis (Hentschel, 1912)
Species Hippospongia decidua Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Hyattella sinuosa (Pallas, 1766)
Species Hippospongia dentata (Hyatt, 1877) accepted as Hippospongia gossypina (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Species Hippospongia dura Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Hyattella cavernosa (Pallas, 1766)
Species Hippospongia equina (Schmidt, 1862) accepted as Hippospongia communis (Lamarck, 1814)
  » Subspecies Hippospongia equina meandriniformis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) accepted as Spongia (Spongia) barbara Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
» Variety Hippospongia equina var. elastica Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Hippospongia elastica Lendenfeld, 1889
» Variety Hippospongia equina var. micropora Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Hippospongia micropora (Lendenfeld, 1889)
Species Hippospongia flabellum Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Hippospongia canaliculata (Lendenfeld, 1886)
Species Hippospongia frondosa Hentschel, 1912 accepted as Ircinia ramosa (Keller, 1889)
Species Hippospongia metachromia de Laubenfels, 1954 accepted as Dactylospongia metachromia (de Laubenfels, 1954)
Species Hippospongia mollissima Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Hippospongia multicia Hooper & Wiedenmayer, 1994
Species Hippospongia nardorus (Lendenfeld, 1886) accepted as Coscinoderma nardorus (Lendenfeld, 1886)
Species Hippospongia reticulata (Lendenfeld, 1886) accepted as Spongia reticulata (Lendenfeld, 1886)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Indian Ocean [details]
Links To GenBank
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Hippospongia 2117 cf. H.)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Hippospongia sp. 2240 cf.)
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131757
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Hippospongia Schulze, 1879. 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=131757 on 2013-06-19
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