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Spongia agaricina Pallas, 1766 
AphiaID: 132380

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Spongiidae (Family) > Spongia (Genus)
Status alternate representation (subgenus assignment)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Spongia (Spongia) agaricina Pallas, 1766
Rank Species
Parent Spongia Linnaeus, 1759
Sources  original description: Pallas, P.S. (1766) Elenchus zoophytorum. Van Cleef, Hagae-Comitum, pp. 1-451, available online at http://www.gdz-cms.de/no_cache/en/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=222048 [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]

additional source: Mustapha, K.B.,Zarrouk, S., Souissi, A., ; El Abed, A. 2003.Diversite Des Desmosponges Tunisiennes.Bull.Inst. Natn. Scien. Tech. Mer de Salammbô. Vol. 30 [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Italian spugna elefante  [details]
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Subspecies Spongia agaricina corlosia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) corlosia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) coelosia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Subspecies Spongia agaricina dura Hyatt, 1877 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) barbara Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Subspecies Spongia agaricina punctata Hyatt, 1877 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) punctata Hyatt, 1877
Variety Spongia agaricina var. punctata Hyatt, 1877 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) punctata Hyatt, 1877
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Croatia (not valid[details]
European waters (ERMS scope) (not valid[details]
Tunisia (not valid[details]
Specimens  Unknown type , locality Indian Ocean [details]
Neotype: BMNH 25.11.1.1, locality Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone (Zamboangan, Mindanao, Philippines) [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
Note  Spongia agaricina was originally described from the Indian Ocean, but the name was subsequently adopted for a similarly looking (but unlikely to be the same) species from the Mediterranean. See Spongia lamella. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132380
Taxonomic
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2008-01-09 18:44:40Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongia agaricina. 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=132380 on 2013-06-19
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