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Spheciospongia Marshall, 1892 
AphiaID: 170525

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Clionaidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Alcyonium vesparium Lamarck, 1815 (type by original designation)
Parent Clionaidae d’Orbigny, 1851
Synonymised
taxa
  Heterocliona Verrill, 1907 (junior synonym)
Sources  original description: Marshall, W. 1892. Spongiologische Beiträge: Festschrift. (Leipzig:):i-iv, 1-36, pls 1-8. [details]

basis of record: Rützler, K. 2002. Family Clionaidae D'Orbigny, 1851. Pp. 173-185. 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 (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Verrill, A.E. 1907. The Bermuda Islands: Part V. An account of the Coral Reefs (Characteristic Life of the Bermuda Coral Reefs). Porifera: Sponges. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences12: 330-344, pls 35 C-D. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Spheciospongia albida (Carter, 1886)
Species Spheciospongia alcyonoides (Hallmann, 1912)
Species Spheciospongia areolata (Dendy, 1897)
Species Spheciospongia australis (Lendenfeld, 1888)
Species Spheciospongia capensis (Carter, 1882)
Species Spheciospongia carnosa (Topsent, 1897)
Species Spheciospongia confoederata de Laubenfels, 1930
Species Spheciospongia congenera (Ridley, 1884)
Species Spheciospongia digitata (Hentschel, 1909)
Species Spheciospongia excentrica (Burton, 1931)
Species Spheciospongia florida (Lendenfeld, 1897)
Species Spheciospongia globularis (Dendy, 1922)
Species Spheciospongia inconstans (Dendy, 1887)
Species Spheciospongia incrustans Carballo, Cruz-Barraza & Gomez, 2004
Species Spheciospongia lacunosa (Kieschnick, 1898)
Species Spheciospongia massa (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
Species Spheciospongia mastoidea (Keller, 1891)
Species Spheciospongia montiformis (Hallmann, 1912)
Species Spheciospongia panis (Thiele, 1898)
Species Spheciospongia papillosa (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
Species Spheciospongia peleia (de Laubenfels, 1954)
Species Spheciospongia poculoides (Hallmann, 1912)
Species Spheciospongia potamophera (de Laubenfels, 1954)
Species Spheciospongia poterionides (Vacelet & Vasseur, 1971)
Species Spheciospongia purpurea (Lamarck, 1815)
Species Spheciospongia ramulosa (Lendenfeld, 1888)
Species Spheciospongia robusta (Carter, 1886)
Species Spheciospongia rotunda (Tanita & Hoshino, 1989)
Species Spheciospongia ruetzleri Carballo, Cruz-Barraza & Gomez, 2004
Species Spheciospongia semilunaris (Lindgren, 1897)
Species Spheciospongia solida (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
Species Spheciospongia spiculifera (Kieschnick, 1898)
Species Spheciospongia symbiotica Hechtel, 1983
Species Spheciospongia tentorioides (Dendy, 1905)
Species Spheciospongia transitoria (Ridley, 1884)
Species Spheciospongia vagabunda (Ridley, 1884)
Species Spheciospongia vesparium (Lamarck, 1815)

Species Spheciospongia arndti de Laubenfels, 1936 accepted as Spheciospongia inconstans (Dendy, 1887)
Species Spheciospongia othello de Laubenfels, 1950 accepted as Spheciospongia vesparium (Lamarck, 1815)
Species Spheciospongia vesparia (Lamarck, 1814) accepted as Spheciospongia vesparium (Lamarck, 1815)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170525
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2010-06-05 12:04:55Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spheciospongia Marshall, 1892. 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=170525 on 2013-05-20
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