WoRMS taxon details
Sycon elegans (Bowerbank, 1845)
AphiaID: 132252
AphiaID: 132252
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Calcarea (Class) > Calcaronea (Subclass) > Leucosolenida (Order) > Sycettidae (Family) > Sycon (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Sycon Risso, 1827 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Dunstervillia elegans Bowerbank, 1845 (genus transfer) Dunstervillia lanzarotae Haeckel, 1870 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Grantia tesselata Bowerbank, 1864 (genus transfer and junior synonym) Scypha elegans (Bowerbank, 1845) (genus transfer) Sycandra elegans (Bowerbank, 1845) (genus transfer) Sycandra tabulatum Haeckel, 1872 (genus transfer & junior synonym) | |||||||
| Sources |
original description: Bowerbank, J.S. 1845a. Description of a new genus of Calcareous Sponge. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 15 (99): 297-300,pl. XVII. [details] [full text]
additional source: Cruz, T. 2002. Esponjas marinas de Canarias. Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias, S/C Tenerife. 260 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] 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] from synonym: Bowerbank, J.S. 1864a. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae.Volume 1. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-290, pls I-XXXVII. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] [full text] 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] from synonym: BODC (2009). Species list from the British Oceanographic Data Centre. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||
| Distribution | Azores [details] Azores Canaries Madeira [details] Canary Islands Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Celtic Seas [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] French Exclusive Economic Zone [Mediterranean part] (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mediterranean Sea [details] South African Exclusive Economic Zone (not valid) [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Western Mediterranean [details] | |||||||
| Specimen | Unknown type (from synonym) , locality Channel Islands [view taxon] | |||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132252 | |||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Sycon elegans (Bowerbank, 1845). 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=132252 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||
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