WoRMS taxon details
Spongia (Spongia) officinalis Linnaeus, 1759
AphiaID: 165220
AphiaID: 165220
| 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 |
Euspongia officinalis (Linnaeus, 1759) (genus transfer) Euspongia officinalis var. tubulosa Schulze, 1879 (genus transfer and junior synonym) Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862 (junior synonym) Spongia mollissima Schmidt, 1862 (junior synonym) Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759 (subgenus assignment) Spongia officinalis mediterranea Hyatt, 1877 (junior synonym) Spongia officinalis mediterranea var. tubuliformis Hyatt, 1877 (junior synonym) Spongia officinalis mediterranea var. zimocciformis Hyatt, 1877 (junior synonym) Spongia officinalis var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862 (junior synonym) Spongia quarnerensis Schmidt, 1862 (junior synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1759). Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus II. Editio decima, reformata. - pp. [1-4], 825-1384. Holmiæ. (L. Salvii). [details] [full text]
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: Schulze, F.E. 1879b. Untersuchungen über den Bau und die Entwicklung der Spongien. Siebente Mittheilung. Die Familie der Spongidae. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 32: 593-660, pls XXXIV-XXXVIII. [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: Schmidt, O. 1862. Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Carter, H.J. 1876. Descriptions and Figures of Deep-Sea Sponges and their Spicules, from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S.‘Porcupine’, chiefly in 1869 (concluded). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 18(105): 226-240; (106): 307-324; (107): 388-410;(108): 458-479, pls XII-XVI. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Lévi, C. 1957a. Spongiaires des côtes d'Israel. Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel 6 B(3-4): 201-212. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Lévi, C. 1961b (1959). Spongiaires des Iles Philippines, principalement récoltées au voisinage de Zamboanga. Philippine Journal of Science 88(4): 509-533. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Maldonado, M. (1992). Demosponges of the red coral bottoms from the Alboran Sea. J. Nat. Hist. 26: 1131-1161 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Cook, S.D.C.; Bergquist, P.R. 2002. Family Spongiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 1051-1060. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [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] 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] from synonym: Cruz, T. 2002. Esponjas marinas de Canarias. Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias, S/C Tenerife. 260 pp. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| All child taxa [hide all] | Variety Spongia (Spongia) officinalis var. exigua (Schulze, 1879) Variety Spongia (Spongia) officinalis var. irregularis (Schulze, 1879) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Adriatic Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Aegean Sea [details] Alboran Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Azores Canaries Madeira [details] Canary Islands Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Cape Verde (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Croatian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Mexico (not valid) [details] Israeli Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Levantine Sea [details] Mediterranean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tunisian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tunisian Plateau/Gulf of Sidra [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Specimens |
Nontype (from synonym): MRAC 558 [view taxon]
Nontype (from synonym): MRAC 507 [view taxon] Holotype (from synonym): LMJG , locality Adriatic Sea [view taxon] Holotype (from synonym): LMJG , locality Adriatic Sea [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection | |||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165220 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongia (Spongia) officinalis Linnaeus, 1759. 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=165220 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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