WoRMS taxon details
Hippiospongia de Laubenfels, 1936
AphiaID: 397152
AphiaID: 397152
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Spongiidae (Family) |
| Status |  unaccepted (junior synonym) | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Accepted name | Hippospongia Schulze, 1879 | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Hippiospongia lachne de Laubenfels, 1936 (type by original designation) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Spongiidae Gray, 1867 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: 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: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1978. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part I. Keratosa. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 94. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 56 (179): 1–94. [details] [full text] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Hippiospongia kerion de Laubenfels & Storr, 1958 (species inquirenda) Species Hippiospongia gossypina (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) accepted as Hippospongia gossypina (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Species Hippiospongia lachne de Laubenfels, 1936 accepted as Hippospongia lachne (de Laubenfels, 1936) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
This genus name is a mistake, based on the an illegal attempt of Burton (1934) to suppress the name Hippospongia Schulze by assigning a neotype for Spongia equina Schmidt, 1862 (the type species of Hippospongia) which was conspecific with Spongia officinalis, the type species of Spongia and thus Hippospongia became a junior synonym of Spongia. Since there are type specimens available in the Graz Museum, there can be no question of a neotype. De Laubenfels subsequent attempt to erect a new genus name for sponges assigned previously to Hippospongia is also unnecessary and the name becomes a junior synonym of Hippospongia Schulze. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:397152 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Hippiospongia de Laubenfels, 1936. 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=397152 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||
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