WoRMS taxon details
Ircinia felix (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
AphiaID: 165020
AphiaID: 165020
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Irciniidae (Family) > Ircinia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Ircinia Nardo, 1833 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Hircinia armata (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (genus transfer and junior synonym) Hircinia armata var. fistularis Verrill, 1907 (genus transfer and junior synonym) Hircinia filamenta Hyatt, 1877 (genus transfer) Hircinia fistularis Verrill, 1907 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Hircinia nigra Hyatt, 1877 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Hircinia variabilis sensu De Laubenfels, 1936 (genus transfer and junior synonym) Ircinia felix f. acuta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (junior synonym) Ircinia felix f. felix Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (status change) Ircinia felix f. fistularis (Verrill, 1907) (junior synonym) Ircinia fistularis (Verrill, 1907) (junior synonym) Polytherses acuta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Polytherses armata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Polytherses columnaris Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Polytherses felix Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer & junior synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Duchassaing De Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1978. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part I. Keratosa. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 94. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 56 (179): 1–94. [details] [full text] 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] from synonym: Hyatt, A. 1877. Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Verrill, A.E. 1907. The Bermuda Islands: Part V. An account of the Coral Reefs (Characteristic Life of the Bermuda Coral Reefs). Porifera: Sponges. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences12: 330-344, pls 35 C-D. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Rützler, K. 1986. Phylum Porifera (Sponges). Pp. 111-126, in: W. Sterrer (ed.) Marine Fauna and Flora of Bermuda. John Wiley & Sons, New York, i-xxx, 1-742. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Ortiz, M., I. Winfield & S. Chazaro-Olvera (2011). A new sponge-inhabiting leptostracan species of the genus Nebalia (Crustacea: Pyllocarida: Leptostraca) from the Veracruz Coral Reef System, Gulf of Mexico. Zootaxa 3027: 52-62. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1936a. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Carnegie Institute of Washington (Tortugas Laboratory Paper N° 467) 30: 1-225, pls 1-22. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Forma Ircinia felix f. acuta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 accepted as Ircinia felix (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Forma Ircinia felix f. felix Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 accepted as Ircinia felix (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Forma Ircinia felix f. fistularis (Verrill, 1907) accepted as Ircinia felix (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Belize [details] Bermuda (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Bermudian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Bonaire [details] British Virgin Islands Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Caribbean Sea [details] Cayman Islands [details] Colombia [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Eastern Caribbean [details] Floridian (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Greater Antilles [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Hispaniola [details] Jamaica [details] Mexico [details] Panama [details] Southern Caribbean [details] Southern Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Southwestern Caribbean [details] United States part of the Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Venezuela [details] Western Caribbean [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 3 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To Sponge Barcoding Database (Ircinia felix) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165020 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Ircinia felix (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864). 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=165020 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||
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