WoRMS taxon details
Ciocalypta alleni de Laubenfels, 1936
165761 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165761)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1936). A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. <em>Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication.</em> 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30) 1-225, pls 1-22.
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Taxonomy De Laubenfels (1936: 134), in a remarkably convoluted reasoning, erected this as a replacement name for Spongia cavernosa...
Taxonomy De Laubenfels (1936: 134), in a remarkably convoluted reasoning, erected this as a replacement name for Spongia cavernosa sensu Lamarck, 1814 (not S. cavernosa Pallas, 1766). At the same time he intended this as a replacement for Ciocalypta penicillus, which would be a junior synonym of Spongia cavernosa = Ciocalypta penicillus as redescribed by Topsent (1930). The obvious choice of a replacement name, if Ciocalypta penicillus and Spongia cavernosa sensu Lamarck were conspecific, would be Ciocalypta penicillus, as the first available juior synonym, and a new name C. alleni would have been totally unnecessary. However, Spongia cavernosa sensu Pallas is mentioned by Lamarck, which means the use of the name by Lamarck is a misapplication, not a homonym. We nevertheles retain here C. alleni as separate from C. penicillus (and other Ciocalypta species), as it is possible that Lamarck's material was not from the Caribbean, but from South Australia, from where many Lamarck specimens originated, and thus conspecificity is unlikely. [details]
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2024). World Porifera Database. Ciocalypta alleni de Laubenfels, 1936. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=165761 on 2024-04-23
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Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1936). A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. <em>Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication.</em> 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30) 1-225, pls 1-22.
page(s): 134 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 134 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Taxonomy De Laubenfels (1936: 134), in a remarkably convoluted reasoning, erected this as a replacement name for Spongia cavernosa sensu Lamarck, 1814 (not S. cavernosa Pallas, 1766). At the same time he intended this as a replacement for Ciocalypta penicillus, which would be a junior synonym of Spongia cavernosa = Ciocalypta penicillus as redescribed by Topsent (1930). The obvious choice of a replacement name, if Ciocalypta penicillus and Spongia cavernosa sensu Lamarck were conspecific, would be Ciocalypta penicillus, as the first available juior synonym, and a new name C. alleni would have been totally unnecessary. However, Spongia cavernosa sensu Pallas is mentioned by Lamarck, which means the use of the name by Lamarck is a misapplication, not a homonym. We nevertheles retain here C. alleni as separate from C. penicillus (and other Ciocalypta species), as it is possible that Lamarck's material was not from the Caribbean, but from South Australia, from where many Lamarck specimens originated, and thus conspecificity is unlikely. [details]From other sources
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