WoRMS taxon details
Spheciospongia vesparium (Lamarck, 1815)
AphiaID: 170566
AphiaID: 170566
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Clionaidae (Family) > Spheciospongia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Spheciospongia Marshall, 1892 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Alcyonium vesparium Lamarck, 1815 (genus transfer) Cliona cribosa (Schmidt, 1870) (genus transfer & junior synonym) Heterocliona cribraria Verrill, 1907 (genus transfer and junior synonym) Hymeniacidon pulvinatus Bowerbank, 1872 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Papillina cribrosa Schmidt, 1870 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Poterion atlantica George & Wilson, 1919 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Prianos tierneyi de Laubenfels, 1953 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Pseudosuberites melanos de Laubenfels, 1934 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Spheciospongia othello de Laubenfels, 1950 (junior synonym) Spheciospongia vesparia (Lamarck, 1814) (misspelling) Spheciospongia vesparium typica Vicente, Rützler & Carballeira, 1991 (junior synonym) Spirastrella andrewsi George & Wilson, 1919 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Spirastrella pulvinata (Bowerbank, 1872) (genus transfer & junior synonym) Spongia dysoni Carter, 1882 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Thalysias vesparia (Lamarck, 1814) (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: 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] 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] from synonym: Vicente, V.P.; Ruetzler, K.; Carballeira, N.M. 1991. Comparative morphology, ecology, and fatty acid composition of West Indian Spheciospongia (Demospongea). Marine Ecology 12(3): 211-226 (look up in IMIS) [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: Bowerbank, J.S. 1872b. Contributions to a General History of the Spongiadae. Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872: 115-129, pls V-VI. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Schmidt, O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: George, W.C.; Wilson, H.V. 1919. Sponges of Beaufort (N.C.)Harbor and Vicinity. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington 36:129-179, pls LVI-LXVI. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1953a. Sponges from the Gulf of Mexico.Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean 2(3): 511-557. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1934. New sponges from the Puerto Rican deep. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 91(17): 1-28. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1950a. The Porifera of the Bermuda Archipelago. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 27(1):1-154, pls I-II. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Carter, H.J. 1882a. Some Sponges from the West Indies and Acapulco in the Liverpool Free Museum described, with general and classificatory Remarks. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 9(52): 266-301,346-368, pls XI-XII. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Arndt, W. 1927. Kalk- und Kieselschwämme von Curaçao. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 25: 133-158, pls I-III. [details] [view taxon] [full text] 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] 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: Lamarck, J.B.P. De Monet, Comte De, 1813-1814. Sur les polypiers empâtés. Suite du mémoire intitulé: Sur les Polypiers empâtés. Suite des éponges. Annales du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris 20 (6): 294-312 (published 1813), 370-386, 432-458 (published 1814). [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Spheciospongia vesparium pallida Vicente, Rützler & Carballeira, 1991 Subspecies Spheciospongia vesparium typica Vicente, Rützler & Carballeira, 1991 accepted as Spheciospongia vesparium (Lamarck, 1815) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Bahamas (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Bahamian [details] Belize [details] Bermuda [details] Bermudian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Caribbean Sea [details] Cayman Islands [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Eastern Caribbean [details] Floridian (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Greater Antilles [details] Guadeloupe and Martinique Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Hispaniola [details] Jamaica [details] Mexico [details] Netherlands Antilles and Aruba Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Northern Gulf of Mexico [details] Southern Caribbean [details] United States part of the Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] United States part of the North Atlantic Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Venezuela [details] Western Caribbean [details] | ||||||||||
| Specimens |
Holotype (from synonym): BMNH , locality Belize (Calibert Quay, 20 miles E of Belize) [view taxon]
Unknown type: MNHN DT 2162, locality Florida [details] Holotype (from synonym): USNM 22360, locality Greater Antilles (Puerto Rico) [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To The Sponge Guide To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Often misspelled as S. vesparia, but vesparium is a noun, so it will not take its gender from the genus name. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170566 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spheciospongia vesparium (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=170566 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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