WoRMS taxon details
Hippospongia equina (Schmidt, 1862)
AphiaID: 165101
AphiaID: 165101
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Spongiidae (Family) > Hippospongia (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (junior synonym) | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Accepted name | Hippospongia communis (Lamarck, 1814) | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Hippospongia Schulze, 1879 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Schmidt, O. 1862. Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7. [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] source of synonymy: Lendenfeld, R. Von 1889a. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges.(Trübner and Co.: London): iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50. [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Hippospongia equina meandriniformis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) accepted as Spongia (Spongia) barbara Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 Variety Hippospongia equina var. elastica Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Hippospongia elastica Lendenfeld, 1889 Variety Hippospongia equina var. micropora Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Hippospongia micropora (Lendenfeld, 1889) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Link | To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165101 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Hippospongia equina (Schmidt, 1862). 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=165101 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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