WoRMS name details
Spongia foliacea Montagu, 1814
193602 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:193602)
unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Montagu, G. (1814 [1818]). An Essay on Sponges, with Descriptions of all the Species that have been discovered on the Coast of Great Britain. <em>Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society.</em> 2(1): 67-122, pls III-XVI., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45847761
page(s): 92-93 [details]
page(s): 92-93 [details]
Type locality contained in Celtic Seas
type locality contained in Celtic Seas [details]
Homonymy This combination is a junior primary homonym of Spongia foliacea Esper, 1797 (which is a Callyspongia). Since Montagu's...
Homonymy This combination is a junior primary homonym of Spongia foliacea Esper, 1797 (which is a Callyspongia). Since Montagu's combination is accepted as a junior synonym of Grantia compressa (Fabricius, 1780) the homonymy appears to be removed (ICZN Art. 60.2). Breitfuss (1898, 1932) was unaware of the homonymy and assigned Montagu's (1814) Spongia foliacea to Grantia as Grantia foliacea (Montagu, 1814). Remarkably, Burton (1963: 444) assigned the combination Grantia foliacea to the authorship of Breitfuss, but that violated the junior homonymy of Montagu's name and created a further case of (secondary) homonymy. If it turns out that both Montagu's and Breitfuss' Grantia foliacea are junior synonyms of Grantia compressa, then the homonymies remain removed. [details]
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2024). World Porifera Database. Spongia foliacea Montagu, 1814. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=193602 on 2024-04-18
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Montagu, G. (1814 [1818]). An Essay on Sponges, with Descriptions of all the Species that have been discovered on the Coast of Great Britain. <em>Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society.</em> 2(1): 67-122, pls III-XVI., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45847761
page(s): 92-93 [details]
source of synonymy Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569
page(s): 524-525 [details]
page(s): 92-93 [details]
source of synonymy Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569
page(s): 524-525 [details]
From editor or global species database
Homonymy This combination is a junior primary homonym of Spongia foliacea Esper, 1797 (which is a Callyspongia). Since Montagu's combination is accepted as a junior synonym of Grantia compressa (Fabricius, 1780) the homonymy appears to be removed (ICZN Art. 60.2). Breitfuss (1898, 1932) was unaware of the homonymy and assigned Montagu's (1814) Spongia foliacea to Grantia as Grantia foliacea (Montagu, 1814). Remarkably, Burton (1963: 444) assigned the combination Grantia foliacea to the authorship of Breitfuss, but that violated the junior homonymy of Montagu's name and created a further case of (secondary) homonymy. If it turns out that both Montagu's and Breitfuss' Grantia foliacea are junior synonyms of Grantia compressa, then the homonymies remain removed. [details]