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Porifera taxon details

Dysidea fragilis (Montagu, 1818) 
AphiaID: 132324

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Dysideidae (Family) > Dysidea (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Dysidea Johnston, 1842
Synonymised
taxa
  Duseideia fragilis (Montagu, 1818) (genus transfer)
Dysidea coriacea Bowerbank, 1874 (junior synonym)
Spongelia fragilis (Montagu, 1818) (genus transfer)
Spongelia fragilis var. irregularis Lendenfeld, 1889 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spongelia pallescens fragilis (Montagu, 1818) (genus transfer)
Spongia fragilis Montagu, 1818 (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Montagu, G. 1818. An Essay on Sponges, with Descriptions of all the Species that have been discovered on the Coast of Great Britain. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 2(1): 67-122, pls III-XVI. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Cook, S.D.C.; Bergquist, P.R. 2002. Family Dysideidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 1061-1066. 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). [details] [full text]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Mustapha, K.B.,Zarrouk, S., Souissi, A., ; El Abed, A. 2003.Diversite Des Desmosponges Tunisiennes.Bull.Inst. Natn. Scien. Tech. Mer de Salammbô. Vol. 30 [details]

additional source: Kelly, M. (2009). Demospongiae, Calcarea (Porifera). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [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]

additional source: Cruz, T. 2002. Esponjas marinas de Canarias. Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias, S/C Tenerife. 260 pp. [details]

additional source: Stone, S. M., Boardley, E., and Gill, M. 1987 Field characteristics of some conspicuous sublittoral sponges from Roaringwater Bay, County Cork, Ireland. in European contributions to the taxonomy of sponges, Jones W.C. (ed.). Publications of the Sherkin island marine station, 1: 130-140  [details] [full text]

additional source: Uriz, M.J. 1988. Deep-water sponges from the continental shelf and slope off Namibia (Southwest Africa): Classses Hexactinellida and Demospongia. Monografías de Zoología Marina 3: 9-157. [details]

additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Burton, M. 1956. The sponges of West Africa. Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen) 4: 111-147. [details]

additional source: 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]

from synonym: Burton, M. 1933b. Report on a small collection of sponges from Stil Bay, S. Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10) 11: 235-244. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Lendenfeld, R. Von 1889a. A Monograph of the Horny Sponges.(Trübner and Co.: London): iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Topsent, E. 1897a. Spongiaires de la Baie d’Amboine. (Voyage de MM. M. Bedot et C. Pictet dans l’Archipel Malais). Revue suisse de Zoologie 4: 421-487, pls 18-21. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Burton, M. 1931e [1932]. The Porifera of the Isle of Man. LancashireSea Fisheries Laboratory Reports 1931: 167-169. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Schulze, F.E. 1879a (1878b). Untersuchungen über den Bau und die Entwicklung der Spongien. Sechste Mittheilung. Die Gattung Spongelia. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 32: 117-157, pls V-VIII. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Arndt, W. 1935. Porifera. In: Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee. 3a (27).(Leipzig): 1-140. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Bowerbank, J.S. 1874b. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae.Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

misapplication: Bergquist, P.R. 1961b. The Keratosa (Porifera) collected by the Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin [New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 13] 139 (5): 207-219. [details] [full text]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English goosebump sponge  [details]
French éponge mie de pan mouillée  [details]
Direct child
taxa

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Variety Dysidea fragilis var. fasciculata Wilson, 1925 accepted as Dysidea fasciculata (Wilson, 1925)
Variety Dysidea fragilis var. ramosa (Schulze, 1879) accepted as Dysidea avara (Schmidt, 1862)
Variety Dysidea fragilis var. tubulosa (Schulze, 1879) accepted as Dysidea avara (Schmidt, 1862)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Aegean Sea [details]
Atlantic [details]
Australia (not valid[details]
Azores Canaries Madeira [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Barents Sea (probably not valid[details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Bermuda (probably not valid[details]
Black Sea (probably not valid[details]
Canary Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Caribbean Sea (probably not valid[details]
Celtic Seas [details]
Chatham Island (not valid[details]
Circum-equitorial (not valid[details]
Cosmopolitan (World Oceans) (not valid[details]
Cuba (probably not valid[details]
England (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Freetown (probably not valid[details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Guinea Central [details]
Gulf of Guinea West [details]
Gulf of Mexico (probably not valid[details]
Indian Ocean (not valid[details]
Inhaca Island (not valid[details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Kara Sea (probably not valid[details]
Laptev Sea (probably not valid[details]
Levantine Sea [details]
Madeira (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mahe Island (not valid[details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Mexico (not valid[details]
Murmansk Coast (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Namibian Exclusive Economic Zone (probably not valid[details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone (not valid[details]
North Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North Coast of Spain (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North East Atlantic [details]
North Sea [details]
Off Bathurst [details]
Pacific Ocean (not valid[details]
Red Sea (not valid[details]
Sea of Japan (probably not valid[details]
South European Atlantic Shelf [details]
Southern Norway [details]
Tunisia [details]
Tunisian Plateau/Gulf of Sidra [details]
United Kingdom (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
West Africa [details]
White Sea [details]
Wimereux [details]
Zanzibar (not valid[details]

Specimens  Nontype: MRAC 505A (not valid) [details]
Unknown type (from synonym) , locality United Kingdom [view taxon]
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Host of  Acontiophorus scutatus (Brady & Robertson D., 1873) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (69 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
To ITIS
Note  This species has been widely reported, but appears to be restricted to the Atlantic coasts of Europe, with some possible sightings in the Western Mediterranean. [details]
Image 
Dysidea fragilis (Montagu, 1818)
Dysidea fragilis (Montagu, 1818)
added on 2006-04-06 - author: BioMar-TCD
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2012-07-08 14:11:29
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132324
Taxonomic
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2006-12-21 19:17:33Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Dysidea fragilis (Montagu, 1818). 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: 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 at http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=132324 on 2013-05-23
  


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