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Geodia gibberosa Lamarck, 1815 
AphiaID: 170126

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Geodiidae (Family) > Geodiinae (Subfamily) > Geodia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Geodia Lamarck, 1815
Pyxitis Schmidt, 1870
Parent Geodia Lamarck, 1815
Synonymised
taxa
  Geodia cariboea Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (junior synonym)
Geodia flexisclera Pulitzer-Finali, 1986 (junior synonym)
Pyxitis gibberosa (Lamarck, 1815) (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: 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]

basis of record: Topsent, E. 1931 [1930]. Éponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Archives du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle. Paris (6) 5:1-56, pls I-IV. [details]

basis of record: Uriz, M.J. (2002). Family Geodiidae Gray, 1867, in: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. pp. 134-140 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: 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]

additional source: Hajdu, E.; Peixinho, S. & Fernandez, J.C.C. (2011). Esponjas Marinhas da Bahia - Guia de Campo e Laboratório. Série Livros 45. Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro. 276 pp. [details]

additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stentoft, N. 1988. Barbados Deep-Water Sponges. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 122. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao andother Caribbean Islands, 70(215): 1-175. [details] [full text]

additional source: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1936a. 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. Carnegie Institute of Washington (Tortugas Laboratory Paper N° 467) 30: 1-225, pls 1-22. [details]

additional source: Lévi, C. 1959a. Résultats scientifiques des Campagnes de la ‘Calypso’. Campagne de la ‘Calypso’ dans le Golfe de Guinée et aux îles Principe, São Tomé et Annobon. 5. Spongiaires. Annales de l’Institut océanographique 37 (4): 115-141, pls 5-6. [details]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Pulitzer-Finali, G. 1986. A collection of West Indian Demospongiae (Porifera). In appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the West Indies. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria 86: 65-216. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Bahamas Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Bahamian [details]
Barbados [details]
Barbados Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Belize [details]
Bermuda [details]
Bermudian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
British Virgin Islands Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Carolinian [details]
Colombian part of the Caribbean Sea [details]
Costa Rican part of the Caribbean Sea [details]
Cuba [details]
Eastern Brazil [details]
Eastern Caribbean [details]
Florida (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Floridian [details]
Greater Antilles [details]
Guianan [details]
Gulf of Guinea Islands [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Guyanese Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Jamaica [details]
Mexican Exclusive Economic Zone [Caribbean part] [details]
Northern Gulf of Mexico [details]
Panamanian part of the Caribbean Sea [details]
South Carolina (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Southeastern Brazil [details]
Southern Caribbean [details]
Southwestern Caribbean [details]
Venezuelan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Western Caribbean [details]
Specimens  Holotype: MNHN DT 608 [details]
Unknown type: MNHN DT 3406, locality Guyana [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (39 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 10 proteins)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Geodia gibberosa)
To The Sponge Guide
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
To ITIS
Note  Type locality: Unknown, but presumed to be Caribbean. Lamarck believed the specimen originated from the Guyanan waters. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170126
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Geodia gibberosa Lamarck, 1815. 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=170126 on 2013-05-24
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