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Cacospongia Schmidt, 1862 
AphiaID: 131762

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Thorectidae (Family) > Thorectinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Cacospongia mollior Schmidt, 1862 (type by subsequent designation)
Parent Thorectinae Bergquist, 1978
Sources  original description: Schmidt, O. 1862. Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Cook, S.D.C.; Bergquist, P.R. 2002. Family Thorectidae Bergquist, 1978. Pp. 1028-1050. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details]

additional source: Kelly, M. (2009). Demospongiae, Calcarea (Porifera). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [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]

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taxa

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 Species Cacospongia amorpha Polejaeff, 1884
Species Cacospongia carduelis Schmidt, 1864
Species Cacospongia coreana (Lee & Sim, 2005)
Species Cacospongia intermedia Poléjaeff, 1884
Species Cacospongia levis Polejaeff, 1884
Species Cacospongia mollior Schmidt, 1862
Species Cacospongia mycofijiensis (Kakou, Crews & Bakus, 1987)
Species Cacospongia ridleyi Burton, 1952
Species Cacospongia serta (Lendenfeld, 1889)
Species Cacospongia symbiotica Burton, 1959

Species Cacospongia aspergillum Schmidt, 1868 accepted as Fasciospongia cavernosa (Schmidt, 1862)
Species Cacospongia camera de Laubenfels, 1936 accepted as Dendrilla camera (de Laubenfels, 1936)
Species Cacospongia cavernosa Schmidt, 1862 accepted as Fasciospongia cavernosa (Schmidt, 1862)
Species Cacospongia cincta Boury-Esnault, 1973 accepted as Scalarispongia cincta (Boury-Esnault, 1973)
Species Cacospongia collectrix Polejaeff, 1884 accepted as Ircinia collectrix (Poléjaeff, 1884)
Species Cacospongia compacta Poléjaeff, 1884 accepted as Psammocinia compacta (Poléjaeff, 1884)
Species Cacospongia dendroides Polejaeff, 1884 accepted as Ircinia dendroides (Polejaeff, 1884)
Species Cacospongia exemplum Lendenfeld, 1886 accepted as Thorecta exemplum (Lendenfeld, 1888)
Species Cacospongia friabilis Polejaeff, 1884 accepted as Ircinia friabilis (Polejaeff, 1884)
Species Cacospongia herdmani (Dendy, 1905) accepted as Luffariella herdmani (Dendy, 1905)
Species Cacospongia incognita Desqueyroux-Faúndez & van Soest, 1997 accepted as Scalarispongia incognita (Desqueyroux-Faúndez & van Soest, 1997)
Species Cacospongia irregularis Poléjaeff, 1884 accepted as Ircinia irregularis (Poléjaeff, 1884)
Species Cacospongia mollior sensu Ridley, 1884 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) hispida Lamarck, 1814
Species Cacospongia murrayi Poléjaeff, 1884 accepted as Thorecta murrayi (Poléjaeff, 1884)
Species Cacospongia oligoceras Poléjaeff, 1884 accepted as Ircinia oligoceras (Poléjaeff, 1884)
Species Cacospongia poculum Selenka, 1867 accepted as Carteriospongia foliascens (Pallas, 1766)
Species Cacospongia prima Lendenfeld, 1886 accepted as Thorecta prima (Lendenfeld, 1888)
Species Cacospongia procumbens Poléjaeff, 1884 accepted as Ircinia procumbens (Polejaeff, 1884)
Species Cacospongia proficens Pulitzer-Finali & Pronzato, 1981 accepted as Scalarispongia proficens (Pulitzer-Finali & Pronzato, 1981)
Species Cacospongia scalaris Schmidt, 1862 accepted as Scalarispongia scalaris (Schmidt, 1862)
Species Cacospongia schmidti Marenzeller, 1878 accepted as Spongionella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804)
Species Cacospongia similis Thiele, 1905 accepted as Scalarispongia similis (Thiele, 1905)
Species Cacospongia spinifera Poléjaeff, 1884 accepted as Hyrtios spinifer (Poléjaeff, 1884)
Species Cacospongia tuberculata Poléjaeff, 1884 accepted as Sarcotragus tuberculatus (Poléjaeff, 1884)
Species Cacospongia vesiculifera Poléjaeff, 1884 accepted as Psammocinia vesiculifera (Poléjaeff, 1884)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To GenBank
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Cacospongia sp. 4432)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Cacospongia sp. 4432)
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131762
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2005-07-27 15:04:39Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-03-27 18:53:38Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Cacospongia Schmidt, 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=131762 on 2013-05-21
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