WoRMS taxon details
Spongia conus Montagu, 1818
AphiaID: 132432
AphiaID: 132432
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Spongiidae (Family) > Spongia (Genus) |
| Status | species inquirenda | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Spongia Linnaeus, 1759 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: 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] [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] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | European waters (ERMS scope) [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||
| Specimen | Holotype , locality United Kingdom [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To PESI | ||||||||||
| Note |
The description and figure are not sufficient to identify this species with any recently known British species, but it is likely either Axinella damicornis, Endectyon delaubenfelsi or Raspailia ramosa. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132432 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongia conus Montagu, 1818. 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=132432 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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