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Petrosia (Petrosia) ficiformis (Poiret, 1789) 
AphiaID: 166837

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Petrosina (Suborder) > Petrosiidae (Family) > Petrosia (Genus) > Petrosia (Petrosia) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
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Rank Species
Parent Petrosia (Petrosia) Vosmaer, 1885
Synonymised
taxa
  Alcyonium distortum Lamarck, 1815 (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Petrosia dura (Schmidt, 1862) (junior synonym)
Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789) (subgenus assignment)
Rayneria dura Nardo, 1834 (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Reniera compacta Schmidt, 1864 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Reniera dura Schmidt, 1862 (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Schmidtia dura (Schmidt, 1862) (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Schmidtia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789) (genus transfer)
Schmidtia fungiformis Balsamo Crivelli, 1863 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spongia ficiformis Poiret, 1789 (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Poiret, J.L.M. 1789a. Voyage en Barbarie, ou Lettres Ecrites del’Ancienne Numidie pendant les Années 1785 et 1786, avec un Essai sur l’Histoire naturelle de ce Pays. Deuxième Partie. 1. (Paris): 1-315. [details]

basis of record: Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Valentine, C. 2002. Family Petrosiidae Van Soest, 1980. Pp. 906-917. 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]

from synonym: Nardo, G.D. (1834). De Spongiis. Isis (Oken), Coll.: 714-716. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Pansini, M. 1987a. Littoral demosponges from the banks of the Strait of Sicily and the Alboran Sea. Pp. 149-185. In: Vacelet, J. & Boury-Esnault, N. (Eds), Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. NATO ASI Series G 13. (Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg): 1-332. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Burton, M. 1956. The sponges of West Africa. Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen) 4: 111-147. [details] [view taxon]

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.; Vacelet, J. 1958. Éponges récoltées dans l’Atlantique oriental par le ‘Président Théodore-Tissier’ (1955-1956). Revue des Travaux de l’Institut des Pêches maritimes 22 (2): 225-246. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

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: Topsent, E. 1897a. Spongiaires de la Baie d’Amboine. (Voyage de MM. M. Bedot et C. Pictet dans l’Archipel Malais). Revue suisse de Zoologie 4: 421-487, pls 18-21. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Balsamo Crivelli, G. 1863. Di alcuni Spongiarii del Golfo di Napoli.Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale. Milano 5: 284-302, pl. IV-VI. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Lamarck, J.B.P. De Monet, Comte De 1815 [1814]. Suite des polypiers empâtés. Mémoires du Muséum d’Histoire naturelle, Paris 1: 69-80, 162-168, 331-340. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Topsent, E. 1933. Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris.Fin. Archives du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle. Paris (6) 10:1-60, pls I-III. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Schmidt, O. 1864. Supplement der Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. Enthaltend die Histologie und systematische Ergänzungen. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-vi, 1-48, pls 1-4. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

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: De Weerdt, W.H.; Van Soest, R.W.M. 1986. Marine shallow-water Haplosclerida (Porifera) from the south-eastern part of the North Atlantic Ocean. Zoologische Verhandelingen 225: 1-49. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

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: 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
 
Language   Name 
Catalan esponja de pedra  [details]
Catalan petrosia  [details]
Dutch harde vijgspons  [details]
English stony sponge  [details]
French éponge pierre  [details]
German Feigenschwamm  [details]
Italian spugna petrosia  [details]
Spanish petrosia dura  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Adriatic Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Aegean Sea [details]
Atlantic Europe (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Azores Canaries Madeira [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Canary Islands Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Cape Verde [details]
Cape Verdean Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Croatian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
French Exclusive Economic Zone [Mediterranean part] (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of Naples (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Ionian Sea [details]
Israeli Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Levantine Sea [details]
Madeiran Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mediterranean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North Atlantic [details]
North Mediterranean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
São Vicente (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Terribile Bank (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tunisia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tunisian Plateau/Gulf of Sidra [details]
West Africa [details]
West Mediterranean [details]
Western Mediterranean [details]
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Petrosia (Petrosia) ficiformis
Petrosia (Petrosia) ficiformis
added on 2008-02-04 - author: Wirtz, Peter
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2008-02-04 14:55:32
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:166837
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Petrosia (Petrosia) ficiformis (Poiret, 1789). 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=166837 on 2013-05-22
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