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Spongia (Spongia) barbara Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 
AphiaID: 165165

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
  Hippospongia equina meandriniformis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spongia agaricina dura Hyatt, 1877 (junior synonym)
Spongia agaricina dura var. typica Hyatt, 1877 (junior synonym)
Spongia barbara Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (subgenus assignment)
Spongia equina meandriniformis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (junior synonym)
Spongia meandriformis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (junior synonym)
Spongia officinalis barbara Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (status change)
Spongia vermiculata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (junior synonym)
Spongia zimocca barbara Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (status change)
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]

redescription: 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 (from synonym): Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. 1983b. Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam 9(21): 189-205. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

additional source (from synonym): 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] [view taxon]

original description (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]

new combination reference (from synonym): Laubenfels, M.W. De 1950a. The Porifera of the Bermuda Archipelago. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 27(1):1-154, pls I-II. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Bahamas (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Bahamas Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Bahamian [details]
Bermuda (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
British Virgin Islands Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Cuban Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Eastern Caribbean [details]
Floridian [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Northern Gulf of Mexico [details]
Puerto Rican part of the Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Southwestern Caribbean [details]
United States part of the North Atlantic Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Virgin Islands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Specimens  Lectotype: MSNT Por. 97, locality Eastern Caribbean (Virgin Islands, Saint Thomas) [details]
Lectotype (from synonym): MSNT Por. 97, locality Eastern Caribbean (Virgin Islands, Saint Thomas) [view taxon]
Lectotype (from synonym): MSNT Por. 105, locality Eastern Caribbean (Virgin Islands, Saint Thomas) [view taxon]
Lectotype (from synonym): ZMA Por. 02256, locality Eastern Caribbean (Virgin Islands, Saint Thomas) [view taxon]
Paralectotype (from synonym): ZMA Por. 02096, locality Greater Antilles (Virgin Islands, Vieques) [view taxon]
Paralectotype (from synonym): ZMA Por. 02074, locality Greater Antilles (Virgin Islands, Vieques) [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
Images 
Spongia barbara lectotype specimen
[image from synonym]
Spongia barbara lectotype specimen
added on 2013-02-18 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2013-02-18 16:49:24

Spongia barbara paralectotype specimen
[image from synonym]
Spongia barbara paralectotype specimen
added on 2013-02-18 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2013-02-18 16:55:55

Spongia meandriformis lectotype specimen
[image from synonym]
Spongia meandriformis lectotype specimen
added on 2013-02-18 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2013-02-18 21:49:08

Spongia meandriformis paralectotype specimen
[image from synonym]
Spongia meandriformis paralectotype specimen
added on 2013-02-18 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2013-02-18 21:50:29

Spongia vermiculata lectotype specimen
[image from synonym]
Spongia vermiculata lectotype specimen
added on 2013-02-19 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2013-02-19 14:46:38
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165165
Taxonomic
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2010-05-17 18:25:03Z  checked  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongia (Spongia) barbara 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=165165 on 2013-06-20
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