WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Grantia compressa (Fabricius, 1780)

Grantia compressa (Fabricius, 1780)
AphiaID: 132181

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Calcarea (Class) > Calcaronea (Subclass) > Leucosolenida (Order) > Grantiidae (Family) > Grantia (Genus)

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Parent

Grantia Fleming, 1828

Synonymised
taxa

Sources

original description: Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica: systematice sistens animalia Groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quod nomen specificium. Hafniae et Lipsiae: Copenhagen, Denmark. XVI, 452, [2] f. pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [full text]

additional source: Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [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]

additional source: Burton, M. 1930c. Norwegian Sponges from the Norman Collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1930 (2): 487-546, pls I-II. [details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source (from synonym): Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Haeckel, E. 1872b. Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. (G. Reimer:Berlin): (1: 1-484) 2: 1-418 (3: pls 1-60). [details] [view taxon] [full text]

original description (from synonym): Montagu, G. 1818. An Essay on Sponges, with Descriptions of all the Species that have been discovered on the Coast of Great Britain. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 2(1): 67-122, pls III-XVI. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

original description (from synonym): Schmidt, O. 1869. Vorläufige Mittheilungen über die Spongien der Grönlandischen Küste. Mittheilungen Steiermärkische Gew. Verein 2 (1): 89-97. [details] [view taxon]

new combination reference (from synonym): Haeckel, E. 1870d. Prodromus eines Systems der Kalkschwämme. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Medicin und Naturwissenschaft 5: 236-254 (also appeared in English as: Haeckel, E. 1870. Prodromus of a system of the Calcareous sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 5: 176-191). [details] [view taxon] [full text]

new combination reference (from synonym): Topsent, E. 1894b. Etude sur la faune des Spongiaires du Pas-de-Calais, suivie d’une Application de la Nomenclature actuelle à la Monographie de Bowerbank. Revue biologique du Nord de la France 7:6-28. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

new combination reference (from synonym): Arnesen, E. 1900. Spongier fra den norske kyst. I. Calcarea. Bergens Museum Aarbog 5: 1-46, 1 pl. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
English	purse sponge	[details]

All child
taxa
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Variety Grantia compressa var. pennigera (Haeckel, 1872) accepted as Grantia compressa (Fabricius, 1780)
Variety Grantia compressa var. polymorpha (Haeckel, 1872) accepted as Grantia compressa (Fabricius, 1780)
Variety Grantia compressa var. rhopalodes (Haeckel, 1872) accepted as Grantia compressa (Fabricius, 1780)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Distribution

Azores Canaries Madeira [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Celtic Seas [details]
East Greenland Shelf [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greenlandic Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
North East Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North Sea [details]
Northern Norway and Finnmark [details]
Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Southern Norway (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]

Specimen

Unknown type (from synonym) , locality Greenland [view taxon]

Host of

Asterocheres echinicola (Norman, 1869) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)

Links

Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (176 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
To ITIS

LSID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132181

Taxonomic
Edit history

Date	action	by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z	created	van Soest, Rob

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Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Grantia compressa (Fabricius, 1780). 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=132181 on 2013-06-19

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