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Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789)

132920  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132920)

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(of Spongia ficiformis Poiret, 1789) Poiret, J.-L. M. (1789). Voyage en Barbarie, ou Lettres écrites de l'Ancienne Numidie pendant les Années 1785 et 1786, avec un Essai sur l'Histoire naturelle de ce Pays. Deuxième Partie (<i>Alcyonium</i> & Porifera). pp 56-63.  [details]  OpenAccess publication 
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2024). World Porifera Database. Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=132920 on 2024-03-19
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original description  (of Spongia ficiformis Poiret, 1789) Poiret, J.-L. M. (1789). Voyage en Barbarie, ou Lettres écrites de l'Ancienne Numidie pendant les Années 1785 et 1786, avec un Essai sur l'Histoire naturelle de ce Pays. Deuxième Partie (<i>Alcyonium</i> & Porifera). pp 56-63.  [details]  OpenAccess publication 

basis of record Topsent, E. (1933). Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Fin. <em>Archives du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris.</em> 10: 1-60.
page(s): 26-29 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source De Weerdt, W.H.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1986). Marine shallow-water Haplosclerida (Porifera) from the south-eastern part of the North Atlantic Ocean. <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen.</em> 225: 1-49.
page(s): 33-35 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Ben Mustapha, K; Zarrouk, S.; Souissi, A.; El Abed, A. (2003). Diversité des Démosponges Tunisiennes. <em>Bulletin Institut national des Sciences et Technologies de la mer de Salammbô.</em> 30, 55-78.
page(s): 72 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Carballo, J.L.; Garcia-Gómez, J.C. (1994). Esponjas del Estrecho de Gibraltar y áreas próximas, con nuevas aportaciones para la fauna Iberica [Porifera from the Straits of Gibraltar and nearby areas, new species of the Iberian fauna]. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 35(2): 193-211. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 196 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Sarà, M. (1958). Contributo all consoscenza dei Poriferi del Mar Ligure. <em>Annali di Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Genova.</em> 70(1): 207-244.
page(s): 238; pl X [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Laubier, L. (1966). Le coralligène des Albères. Monographie biocénotique. <em>Annales de l'Institut Océanographique, Monaco, Nouvelle Série.</em> 43:137-316, figs. 1-12, plates I-VI, maps 1-2. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 205 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Harmelin, J.-G.; Ledoyer, M.; Saldanha, L.; Zibrowius, H. (2001 [2005]). Peuplement benthique des grottes sous-marines de Sagres (Portugal, Atlantique nord-oriental). <i>In</i>: Biscoito, M., A.J. Almeida & P. Ré (Eds). A Tribute to Luiz Saldanha. <em>Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal.</em> Sup. 6: 15-38.
page(s): 20-21 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Cruz, T. (2002). Esponjas marinas de Canarias. <em>Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias.</em> S/C Tenerife. 260 pp. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Harmelin, J.-G.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Fichez, R.; Vacelet, J.; Zibrowius, H. (2003). Peuplement de la grotte sous-marine de l'ile de Bagaud (Parc national de Port-Cros, France, Méditerranée). <em>Rapport scientifique du Parc national de Port-Cros.</em> 19: 117-134., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicole_Boury-Esnault/publication/280131013_2003_-_Harmelin_JG_N_Boury-Esnault_R_Fichez_J_Vacelet_H_Zibrowius_Peuplement_de_la_grotte_sous-marine_de_Bagaud_Parc_national_de_Port-Cros_France_Mediterranee_Rapport_scientif
page(s): 128 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Benito, J. (1981). Algunas esponjas del litoral levantino español. <em>Boletín del Instituto Español de Oceanografia.</em> 6, 89-102.
page(s): 96 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Bibiloni, M-A. (1982). Estudio sistematico del O. Haplosclerida (Demospongia) del litoral de Blanes (Girona). <em>Actas II Simposio Ibérico de Estudios del Bentos marino, 3, 81-99.</em>
page(s): 89-91; fig E1-E2 & fig 3 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Bibiloni, M-A. (1981). Estudi faunistic del litoral de Blanes (Girona). II Sistemàtica d'esponges. <em>Butlletí de la Institució Catalana d'Història Natural.</em> 47: 5-59.
page(s): 32-33 & 55 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Bibiloni, M-A; Gili,J-M. (1982). Primera aportación al conocimiento de las cuevas de la Isla de Mallorca. <em>Oecologia aquatica.</em> 6: 227-234.
page(s): 232 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Vacelet, J. (1976). Inventaire des Spongiaires du Parc national de Port-Cros (Var). <em>Travaux scientifiques du Parc national de Port-Cros.</em> 2, 167-186.
page(s): 182 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Ramadan, M.M.; Kheirallah, A.M.; Badawi, H.K.; El-Beshbeeshy, M.M. (1989). A new record of sponges from the Egyptian Mediterranean waters. <em>Bulletin national of Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries.</em> 15, 63-71.
page(s): 65 [details]   

additional source Kefalas, E.; Castritsi-Catharios, I; Miliou, H. (2003). The impacts of scallop dredging on sponge assemblages in the Gulf of kalloni (Aegean Sea, northeastern Mediterranean). <em>ICES Journal of Marine Science.</em> 60, 402-10.
page(s): 406 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Saritas, M.Ü. (1973). Report on the Sponges (Porifera) occuring on <i>Posidonia oceanica</i> (L.) at the coast of Altinomuk, Edremit Bay (Aegean Sea). <em>Scientific reports of the Faculty of Science, Ege University.</em> 168, 1-21 (in Turkish).
page(s): 14; pl I fig 7 [details]   

additional source Topaloğlu, B. (2001). A preliminary study on sponge fauna of the north shore of Gökçeada Island. In: Öztürk B, Aysel V, editors. Ulusal Ege Adaları 2001. <em>Toplantısı Bildiriler Kitabı. İstanbul, Turkey: Türk Deniz Araştırmaları Vakfı, .</em> pp. 97–102 (in Turkish).
page(s): 100 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Pansini, M.; Morri, C.; Bianchi, C.N. (2000). The sponge community of a subtidal area with hydrothermal vents: Milos island, Aegean Sea. <em>Estuarine Coastal Shelf Science.</em> 51, 627-635.
page(s): 630 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Corriero, G.; Scalera-Liaci, L.; Ruggiero, D.; Pansini, M. (2000). The sponge community of a semi-submerged Mediterranean cave. <em>Marine Ecology.</em> 21 (1), 85-96.
page(s): 89 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Corriero, G.; Abbiati, M.; Santangelo, G. (1997). Sponges inhabiting a Mediteranean red coral population. <em>Marine Ecology.</em> 18 (2), 147-155.
page(s): 149 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Corriero, G.; Scalera-Liaci, L.; Gristina, M.; Riggio, S.; Mercurio, M. (1997). Composizione tassonomica e distribuzione della fauna e Poriferi e Briozoi in una grotta semisommersa della riserva naturale marina "Isola di Ustica". <em>Biologia Marina Mediterranea.</em> 4 (1), 34-43.
page(s): 37 [details]   

additional source Knittweis, L.; Chevaldonné, P.; Ereskovsky, A.; Schembri, P.J.; Borg, J.A. (2015). A preliminary survey of marine cave habitats in the Maltese Islands. <em>Xjenza Online.</em> 3:153-164., available online at https://doi.org/10.7423/XJENZA.2015.2.07
page(s): 159 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Solórzano, M.R. (1990). Poríferos del litoral gallego: estudio faunístico, distribución e inventario. <em>Phd Thesis Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela.</em> 1036 pp.
page(s): 1006-1009; Lám. 131 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Costa, G.; Giussani, V.; Kletou, D.; Kleitou, P.; Pansini, M.; Setti, A.; Pronzato, R.; Bertolino, M. (2018). A first preliminary study of the shallow water sponge fauna from Cyprus Island (Eastern Mediterranean). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4450(5): 594., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4450.5.7
page(s): 595 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Pansini, M.; Musso, B. (1991). Sponges from trawl-exploitable bottoms of the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas: distribution and ecology. <em>P.S.Z.N.I.: Marine Ecology.</em> 12 (4): 317-329.
page(s): 320 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Ferretti, C.; Vacca, S.; De Ciucis, C.; Marengo, B.; Duckworth, A.R.; Manconi, R.; Pronzato, R.; Domenicotti, C. (2009). Growth dynamics and bioactivity variation of the Mediterranean demosponges <i>Agelas oroides</i> (Agelasida, Agelasidae) and <i>Petrosia ficiformis</i> (Haplosclerida, Petrosiidae). <em>Marine Ecology.</em> 30(3): 327-336., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.2008.00278.x [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, <b><i>in</i></b>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification</i>. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS[details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Boury-Esnault, N. (1971). Spongiaires de la zone rocheuse de Banyuls-sur-Mer. II. Systématique. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 22(2): 287-349.
page(s): 330 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Lopes, M.T. (1985). Les Démosponges littorales de l'Archipel des Açores. <em>Annales de l'Institut océanographique.</em> 61(2): 149-225.
page(s): 200; fig 50 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R. (1987). Description de la faune des Petrosida (Porifera) de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. I. Petrosiidae-Oceanapiidae. <em>Revue suisse de Zoologie.</em> 94(1): 177-243.
page(s): 187-190; note: Misapplication [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Lent, F. Van; Weerdt, W.H. De. (1987). The haplosclerid sponge fauna of Banyuls-sur-mer (Mediterranean), with the description of a new species. Pp. 125-148. In: Vacelet, J. & Boury-Esnault, N. (Eds),Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. <em>ATO ASI Series G13.</em> 125-148.
page(s): 144-145 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Melone, N. (1965). I Poriferi associati a <i>Corallium rubrum</i> (L.) della Sardegna. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova.</em> 75:344-358.
page(s): 355 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Pansini, M. (1987). Littoral demosponges from the banks of the Strait of Sicily and the Alboran Sea. <i>In</i>: Vacelet J, Boury-Esnault N (eds) Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. <em>NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series G, Ecological Sciences Springer, Heidelberg.</em> 13, 149-185. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 180-181; fig 14; note: with a description [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1983). A collection of Mediterranean Demospongiae (Porifera) with, in appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the Mediterranean Sea. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 84: 445-621.
page(s): 586-588; fig 77 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Rützler, K. (1965). Systematik und Ökologie der Poriferen aus Litoral-Schattengebieten der Nordadria. <em>Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere.</em> 55(1): 1-82.
page(s): 39-41; fig 16-18 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Sarà, M. (1960). Poriferi del litorale dell'isola d'lschia e loro ripartizioneper ambienti. <em>Pubblicazioni della Stazione zoologica di Napoli.</em> 31(3):421-472, pls XII-XIII.
page(s): 465 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Sarà, M. (1961). La fauna di Poriferi delle grotte delle isole Tremiti. Studio ecologico e sistematico. <em>Archivio zoologico italiano.</em> 46: 1-59,pls I-II.
page(s): 53-54 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

biology source Lepore, E.; Sciscioli, M.; Gherardi, M.; Scalera-Liaci, L. (1995). The ultrastructure of the mature oocyte and the nurse cells of the ceractinomorpha <i>Petrosia ficiformis</i>. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 36 (1): 15-20. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

biology source Riesgo, A.; Maldonado, M.; Durfort, M. (2008). Occurrence of somatic cells within the spermatic cysts of demosponges: A discussion of their role. <em>Tissue and Cell.</em> 40(6): 387-396., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tice.2008.03.005 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Reproduction Oviparous species. The ultrastructure of the mature oocyte and the nurse cells of Petrosia ficiformis in Lepore et al 1995, and complement on the life cycle in Riesgo et al 2008.
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LanguageName 
English stony sponge  [details]
German Feigenhornschwamm  [details]