WoRMS taxon details
Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759
AphiaID: 132407
AphiaID: 132407
| 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) officinalis Linnaeus, 1759 | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Euspongia Bronn, 1859 Spongia Linnaeus, 1759 Spongia (Spongia) Linnaeus, 1759 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Spongia Linnaeus, 1759 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1759). Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus II. Editio decima, reformata. - pp. [1-4], 825-1384. Holmiæ. (L. Salvii). [details] [full text]
basis of record: Cook, S.D.C.; Bergquist, P.R. 2002. Family Spongiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 1051-1060. 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: 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] additional source: Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] 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] additional source: Lévi, C. 1957a. Spongiaires des côtes d'Israel. Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel 6 B(3-4): 201-212. [details] additional source: Maldonado, M. (1992). Demosponges of the red coral bottoms from the Alboran Sea. J. Nat. Hist. 26: 1131-1161 (look up in IMIS) [details] misapplication: Lévi, C. 1961b (1959). Spongiaires des Iles Philippines, principalement récoltées au voisinage de Zamboanga. Philippine Journal of Science 88(4): 509-533. [details] [full text] misapplication: Carter, H.J. 1876. Descriptions and Figures of Deep-Sea Sponges and their Spicules, from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S.‘Porcupine’, chiefly in 1869 (concluded). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 18(105): 226-240; (106): 307-324; (107): 388-410;(108): 458-479, pls XII-XVI. [details] [full text] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| All child taxa [hide all] | Subspecies Spongia officinalis tubulosa (Schulze, 1879) Subspecies Spongia officinalis barbara Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) barbara Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 Subspecies Spongia officinalis matamata De Laubenfels, 1954 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) matamata de Laubenfels, 1954 Subspecies Spongia officinalis mediterranea Hyatt, 1877 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) officinalis Linnaeus, 1759 Spongia officinalis nitens (Schmidt, 1862) accepted as Spongia (Spongia) nitens (Schmidt, 1862) Subspecies Spongia officinalis obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 Subspecies Spongia officinalis tubulifera Lamarck, 1814 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) tubulifera Lamarck, 1814 Spongia officinalis var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) officinalis Linnaeus, 1759 Variety Spongia officinalis var. arabica Keller, 1889 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) arabica Keller, 1889 Variety Spongia officinalis var. bibulus Rao, 1941 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) bibulus Rao, 1941 Variety Spongia officinalis var. fenestrata Rao, 1941 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) fenestrata Rao, 1941 Variety Spongia officinalis var. lobosa (Polejaeff, 1884) accepted as Spongia (Spongia) lobosa (Polejaeff, 1884) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Adriatic Sea [details] Alboran Sea [details] Canary Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Indian Ocean (not valid) [details] Inhaca Island (not valid) [details] Israeli Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Landing Bay (not valid) [details] Mahe Island (not valid) [details] Mambone Islands (not valid) [details] Mauritius (not valid) [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Omani Exclusive Economic Zone (not valid) [details] Paradise Islands (not valid) [details] Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone (not valid) [details] Red Sea (not valid) [details] Tunisian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (not valid) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Specimens |
Nontype: MRAC 558 [details]
Nontype: MRAC 507 [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (140 publications) To GenBank (49 nucleotides; 5 proteins) To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132407 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759. 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=132407 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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