WoRMS taxon details
Lendenfeldia dendyi (Lendenfeld, 1889)
AphiaID: 165272
AphiaID: 165272
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Thorectidae (Family) > Phyllospongiinae (Subfamily) > Lendenfeldia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Lendenfeldia Bergquist, 1980 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Phyllospongia dendyi Lendenfeld, 1889 (genus transfer) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Lendenfeld, R. Von 1889a. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges.(Trübner and Co.: London): iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50. [details] additional source (from synonym): Bergquist, P.R. 1965. The Sponges of Micronesia, Part I. The Palau Archipelago. Pacific Science 19(2): 123-204. [details] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): Lendenfeld, R. Von 1897c. Spongien von Sansibar. Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft 21: 93-133, pls 9-10. [details] [view taxon] [full text] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Anakao (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Inhaca Island [details] Kokotoni (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Leeuwin [details] Malindi [details] Palau Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Quirimba Archipelago (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] West Caroline Islands [details] Zanzibar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | ||||||||||
| Note |
There is a problem with this species and with the type species of Lendenfeldia. Bergquist (1980) erected Lendenfeldia with type species Phyllospongia dendyi var. frondosa Lendenfeld,1889a. The var. frondosa is mentioned as the first variety by Lendenfeld, and since no typical variety is described this should have been named Phyllospongia dendyi var. dendyi according current rules of the ICZN. Bergquist (1980) not only named the var. frondosa as the type of Lendenfeldia but also raised this variety to species level as Lendenfeldia frondosa, an illegal action if the variety frondosa is in fact the typical variety. Hooper and Wiedenmayer (1994) assigned both varieties (P.dendyi var. frondosa and P. dendyi var. digitata) to the synonymy of Lendenfeldia plicata (Esper), which would have made the above considerations largely an academic matter. Unfortunately, Cook & Bergquist (2002) rejected this proposed synonymy and reestablished Lendenfeldia frondosa as a valid species and the type of the genus Lendenfeldia. It is inescapable that Lendenfeldia frondosa cannot be maintained as an available name in the genus Lendenfeldia and will have to be replaced by Lendenfeldia dendyi. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165272 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Lendenfeldia dendyi (Lendenfeld, 1889). 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=165272 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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