WoRMS taxon details
Spongia fruticosa Esper, 1794
AphiaID: 193580
AphiaID: 193580
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Spongiidae (Family) > Spongia (Genus) |
| Status | species inquirenda | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Spongia Linnaeus, 1759 | ||||||||||
| Source |
original description: Esper, E.C.J. 1794. Die Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet, nebst Beschreibungen. Zweyter Theil. (Raspe: Nürnberg):1-303. [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Indian Ocean [details] | ||||||||||
| Notes |
This species is vaguely described as similar to Spongia dichotoma sensu Linnaeus and Pallas. Apparently the plates (Pl. IV and Pl. X) have been swapped and in the copy available from the Biodiversity Heritage Library there are pencil corrections in both plates, that do not leave a clear indication which of the plates refers to Spongia fruticosa. We have to assume this to be incertae sedis. There is an Indian Ocean species Endectyon fruticosum (Dendy, 1887) which may have been conspecific, but proof of this is lacking. Spongia fruticosa Montagu, 1818 (a junior homonym, not to be confused with Esper's species) is assigned to Desmacidon fruticosum. [details] Type locality: Indian Ocean ('Ostindische Producten') [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:193580 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongia fruticosa Esper, 1794. 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=193580 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||
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