WoRMS taxon details
Spongia (Spongia) agaricina Pallas, 1766
AphiaID: 165160
AphiaID: 165160
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Spongiidae (Family) > Spongia (Genus) > Spongia (Spongia) (Subgenus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Spongia (Spongia) Linnaeus, 1759 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Spongia agaricina Pallas, 1766 (subgenus assignment) Spongia thienemanni Arndt, 1943 (junior synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Pallas, P.S. (1766) Elenchus zoophytorum. Van Cleef, Hagae-Comitum, pp. 1-451, available online at http://www.gdz-cms.de/no_cache/en/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=222048 [details] [full text]
from synonym: Arndt, W. 1943b. Das 'Philippische Elefantenohr' Spongia thienemanni n.sp. Zugleich ein Überbklick über unsere bisherige Kenntnis des Vorkommens geographischer Rassen bei Meereschwämmen. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 40: 381-443. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [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] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Eastern Philippines [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone (not valid) [details] Gulf of Mexico (not valid) [details] Indian Ocean [details] Mediterranean Sea (probably not valid) [details] Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Specimens |
Unknown type (from synonym) , locality Indian Ocean [view taxon]
Neotype (from synonym): BMNH 25.11.1.1, locality Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone (Zamboangan, Mindanao, Philippines) [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection | |||||||||||||
| Note |
The Mediterranean sponge bearing the name Spongia agaricina in many publications is Spongia lamella Schulze, 1879. The genuine Spongia agaricina Pallas, 1766 is from the Indian Ocean, not the Mediterranean. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165160 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongia (Spongia) agaricina Pallas, 1766. 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=165160 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||
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