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Porifera taxon details

Tethya aurantium (Pallas, 1766) 
AphiaID: 134311

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Tethyidae (Family) > Tethya (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Tethya Lamarck, 1815
Synonymised
taxa
  Alcyonium aurantium Pallas, 1766 (genus transfer)
Alcyonium lyncurium Linnaeus, 1767 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Amniscos morum (Schmidt, 1862) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Donatia lyncurium (Linnaeus, 1767) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Tethea lyncurium (Linnaeus, 1767) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Tethya aurantia (Pallas, 1766) (misspelling of species name)
Tethya limski Müller & Zahn, 1968 (junior synonym)
Tethya lyncurium (Linnaeus, 1767) (junior synonym)
Tethya lyncurium contorta Schmidt, 1862 (junior synonym)
Tethya lyncurium nodulosa Schmidt, 1862 (junior synonym)
Tethya morum Schmidt, 1862 (junior synonym)
Tethyum lyncurium (Linnaeus, 1767) (genus name mispelled and junior synonym)
Sources  original description: Pallas, P.S. (1766) Elenchus zoophytorum. Van Cleef, Hagae-Comitum, pp. 1-451, available online at http://www.gdz-cms.de/no_cache/en/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=222048 [details] [full text]

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: Lévi, C. 1952. Spongiaires de la côte du Sénégal. Bulletin de l’Institut français d’Afrique noire (A. Sciences naturelles) 14(1): 34-59. [details] [full text]

additional source: Lévi, C. 1956a. Étude des Halisarca de Roscoff. Embryologie et systématiquedes démosponges. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale 93(1): 1-181. [details]

additional source: Lévi, C. 1957a. Spongiaires des côtes d'Israel. Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel 6 B(3-4): 201-212. [details]

additional source: Lévi, C. 1959a. Résultats scientifiques des Campagnes de la ‘Calypso’. Campagne de la ‘Calypso’ dans le Golfe de Guinée et aux îles Principe, São Tomé et Annobon. 5. Spongiaires. Annales de l’Institut océanographique 37 (4): 115-141, pls 5-6. [details]

additional source: Lévi, C. 1960c. Spongiaires des côtes occidentales africaines. Bulletin de l’Institut français d’Afrique noire (A, Sciences naturelles) 22(3): 743-769. [details] [full text]

additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1993a. Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 159: 205-219. [details]

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]

from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. 12th ed. v. 1 (pt 2): 533-1327, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5 [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Row, R.W.H. 1911. Reports on the Marine Biology of the Sudanese Red Sea, from Collections made by Cyril Crossland, M.A., B.Sc., F.Z.S. XIX. Report on the Sponges collected by Mr. Cyril Crossland in 1904-5. Part II. Non-Calcarea. Journal of the Linnean Society. Zoology 31 (208): 287-400, pls 35-41. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Sarà, M. 2002. Family Tethyidae Gray, 1848. Pp. 245-267. 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] [view taxon] [full text]

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: Olivi,G. 1792. (Alcyonium and Spongia) pp. 235-254 and 262-273 extracted from the book 'Zoologia Adriatica'. Bassano. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Schmidt, O. 1862. Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Müller, W.E.G.; Zahn, R.K. 1968. Tethya limski n.sp., eine Tethyide aus der Adria (Porifera: Homosclerophorida: Tethyidae). Senckenbergiana biologica 49: 469-478. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Bowerbank, J.S. 1864a. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae.Volume 1. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-290, pls I-XXXVII. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Burton, M. (1957). Phylum Porifera. Pp. 26-36. In: Wilson, D.P. (Ed.), Plymouth Marine Fauna, 3rd edition. Being notes on the local distribution of species occurring in the neighbourhood of Plymouth, including some other records of species found on the south coasts of Devon and Cornwall and the adjacent offshore water [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Pallas P.S. (1766). Miscellanea zoologica. Quibus novae imprimis atque obscurae animalium species describuntur et observationibus iconibusque illustrantur. Petrum van Cleef. Hagí Comitum., xii + 224 pp.;14 pls., available online at http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=cTQVAAAAQAAJ [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Burton, M. 1924a. A revision of the sponge family Donatiidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1924 (part 4): 1033-1045, pl. 1. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Gray, J.E. 1867a. Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Lieberkühn, N. 1859. Neue Beiträge zur Anatomie der Spongien. Archiv für Anatomie und Physiologie 30(3): 353-382, 515-529, pls IX-XI [details] [view taxon] [full text]

misapplication: Burton, M. 1931d. The Folden Fiord. Report on the sponges collected by Mr. Soot-Ryven in the Folden Fiord in the year 1923. Tromsø Museum Skrifter 1 (13): 1-8. [details] [full text]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Albanian portokalli i detit me pufka  [details]
Catalan taronja de mar  [details]
English golf ball sponge  [details]
German Meerorange  [details]
Spanish naranja de mar  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Adriatic Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Aegean Sea [details]
Arctic Ocean [details]
Atlantic Europe [details]
Azores Canaries Madeira [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Cape Verde [details]
Caribbean Sea (not valid[details]
Croatian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Cuba (not valid[details]
East Atlantic Coast [details]
East Mediterranean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
French Exclusive Economic Zone [Mediterranean part] [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Guinea Central [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Israeli Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Italian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Kerkennah Islands [details]
Levantine Sea [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Monaco [details]
North Atlantic [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
São Vicente [details]
Senegalese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Southern Norway (probably not valid[details]
Tunisian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Africa [details]
West Coast of France [details]
West Indies (not valid[details]
West Mediterranean [details]
Western Mediterranean [details]
Wimereux [details]

Specimen  Neotype (from synonym): MSNG 49670, locality Naples [view taxon]
Links Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 15 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
Note  The many records of this species from NE Europe are assigned to Tethya citrina. [details]
Image 
Tethya aurantium
Tethya aurantium
added on 2012-02-21 - author: Pillon, Roberto ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134311
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2006-09-22 11:00:10Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Tethya aurantium (Pallas, 1766). 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=134311 on 2013-05-23
  


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