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Hymeniacidon perlevis (Montagu, 1818) 
AphiaID: 132663

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Halichondrida (Order) > Halichondriidae (Family) > Hymeniacidon (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Hymeniacidon Bowerbank, 1858
Synonymised
taxa		  Axinella cristagalli Maas, 1894 (genus transfer)
 Halichondria macularis Johnston, 1846 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
 Hymeniacidon aurea (Montagu, 1818) (junior synonym)
 Hymeniacidon caruncula Bowerbank, 1858 (junior synonym)
 Hymeniacidon mammeata Bowerbank, 1866 (junior synonym)
 Hymeniacidon perleve (Montagu, 1818) (Spelling vatiation)
 Hymeniacidon sanguinea (Grant, 1826) (junior synonym)
 Hymeniacidon virgulata Bowerbank, 1882 (junior synonym)
 Isodictya uniformis Bowerbank, 1866 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
 Polymastia mammeata (Bowerbank, 1866) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
 Raphiodesma simplisissima Bowerbank, 1874 (genus transfer & junior synonym)
 Reniera uniformis (Bowerbank, 1866) (genus transfer & junior synonym)
 Spongia aurea Montagu, 1818 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
 Spongia perlevis Montagu, 1818 (genus transfer)
 Spongia sanguinea Grant, 1826 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
 Stylinos uniformis (Bowerbank, 1866) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
 Stylotella uniformis (Bowerbank, 1866) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
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]

basis of record: Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-816. 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: 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: Samaai, T.; Gibbons, M.J. 2005. Demospongiae taxonomy and biodiversity of the Benguela region on the west coast of South Africa. African Natural History, 1: 1-96 [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: Stone, S. M., Boardley, E., and Gill, M. 1987 Field characteristics of some conspicuous sublittoral sponges from Roaringwater Bay, County Cork, Ireland. in European contributions to the taxonomy of sponges, Jones W.C. (ed.). Publications of the Sherkin island marine station, 1: 130-140  [details] [full text]

additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1993a. Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 159: 205-219. [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. 1956. The sponges of West Africa. Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen) 4: 111-147. [details]

from synonym: Bowerbank, J.S.; Norman, A.M. 1882. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 4 (Supplement). (Ray Society: London):i-xvii, 1-250, pls I-XVII. [details] [view taxon]

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]

from synonym: Kelly, M. (2009). Demospongiae, Calcarea (Porifera). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Bowerbank, J.S. 1858. On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part I. On the Spicula. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 148(2): 279-332, pls XXII-XXVI. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Hentschel, E. 1929. Die Kiesel- und Hornschwämme des Nördlichen Eismeers. Pp. 857-1042, pls XII-XIV. In: Römer, F., Schaudinn, F., Brauer, A. & Arndt, W. (Eds), Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898. 5 (4) (G.Fischer, Jena). [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Bowerbank, J.S. 1866a. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Grant, R.E. 1826d. Notice of two new species of British Sponges. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 2: 203-204. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Pulitzer-Finali, G. 1993. A collection of marine sponges from East Africa. Annales Museo Civico Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 89: 247-350. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Lévi, C. 1956a. Étude des Halisarca de Roscoff. Embryologie et systématiquedes démosponges. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale 93(1): 1-181. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Pansini, M. 1987a. Littoral demosponges from the banks of the Strait of Sicily and the Alboran Sea. Pp. 149-185. In: Vacelet, J. & Boury-Esnault, N. (Eds), Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. NATO ASI Series G 13. (Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg): 1-332. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: Burton, M. 1926d. Sponges. Zoological Results of the Suez Canal Expedition. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 22: 71-83. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Bowerbank, J.S. 1874b. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae.Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Arndt, W. 1935. Porifera. In: Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee. 3a (27).(Leipzig): 1-140. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Topsent, E. 1891a. Essai sur la faune des spongiaires de Roscoff. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale (2) 9(4): 523-554,pl. XXII. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Vosmaer, G.C.J. 1935. The sponges of the Bay of Naples, Porifera incalcaria.Volume II. Capita zoologica 5: (1): 457-828; (2): 829-848, pls1-71 [pls 43 & 55 omitted].
page(s): 693-694, 703-704 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Maas, O. 1894. Die Embryonal-Entwicklung und Metamorphose der Cornacuspongien. Zoologische Jahrbücher Abtheilung für Anatomie und Ontogenie der Thiere 7: 331-448, pls. 19-23. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Johnston, G. 1846 (1842-1849). Description of a new British sponge (Halichondria macularis). History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2: 196 (also published in: Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 (18): 475).  [details] [view taxon] [full text]

misapplication: Bergquist, P.R. 1961c. A collection of Porifera from Northern New Zealand, with Descriptions of Seventeen New Species. Pacific Science 15(1): 33-48. [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch bleke piekjesspons  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Adriatic Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Aegean Sea [details]
Alboran Sea [details]
Angolan (not valid) [details]
Arctic Ocean [details]
Atlantic Europe [details]
Australia [details]
Azores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Azores Canaries Madeira [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Canary Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Cape Verde [details]
Celtic Seas (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Congolese Exclusive Economic Zone (not valid) [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Freetown [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Guinea West (probably not valid) [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Italy (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Monaco (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
New Zealand [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North and East Barents Sea [details]
North Atlantic [details]
North East Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North Sea [details]
Northeastern New Zealand (not valid) [details]
Oosterschelde (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Punta de la Almina (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
South Africa (country) [details]
Svalbard Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tunisian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
United Kingdom (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Africa [details]
Western Mediterranean [details]
Wimereux [details]
Specimens  Holotype (from synonym): BMNH , locality Devon [view taxon]
Unknown type (from synonym) , locality United Kingdom [view taxon]
Host of  Bradypontius papillatus Scott T., 1888) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Asterocheres faroensis Crescenti, Baviera & Zaccone, 2010 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (130 nucleotides; 120 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
Notes  The quoted (South) African material is unlikely to be conspecific with Hymenacidon perlevis. Probably, the specimens belong to Hymeniacidon stylifera (Stephens, 1915). [details]

Additional Material: South Africa - SAM-H4904 (Ts 305), Jacobs Bay, near Saldanha Bay (32°31’S, 17°30’E), depth 3–5 m, collected by T. Samaai, 20
October 1997. Ts 329, Ts 331, Ts 337, Ts 338, Ts 343c,
Elands Bay (32°20’S, 18°20’E), depth 3–6 m, collected by T.
Samaai, 15 November 1997. Ts 359, Ts 370, Ts 381, Ts 391,
Groenrivier (30°29’S, 17°20’E), depth 3 m. Collected by
T. Samaai, 20 December 1997. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132663
Taxonomic
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Hymeniacidon perlevis (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=132663 on 2013-05-22
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