World Porifera Database - Species - Halichondria (Halichondria) Fleming, 1828

Halichondria (Halichondria) Fleming, 1828
AphiaID: 165790

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Halichondrida (Order) > Halichondriidae (Family) > Halichondria (Genus)

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Subgenus

Typetaxon

Spongia panicea Pallas, 1766 (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Halichondria Fleming, 1828

Synonymised
taxa

Amorphina Schmidt, 1870 (preoccupied and junior synonym)
Apathospongia Delage & Hérouard, 1899 (junior synonym)
Apatospongia Marshall, 1892 (junior synonym)
Halichondriella Burton, 1931 (junior synonym)
Halina de Blainville, 1930 (junior synonym)
Menanetia Topsent, 1896 (junior synonym)
Pellina Schmidt, 1870 (junior synonym)
Raspaigella Schmidt, 1868 (junior synonym)
Seriatula Gray, 1867 (junior synonym)
Tedanione Wilson, 1894 (junior synonym)
Trachyopsilla Burton, 1931 (junior synonym)

Sources

original description: Fleming, J. 1828. Spongiadae. Pp. 518-527. In: 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. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh: i-xxiii, 1-565. [details]

basis of record: Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-816. 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]

from synonym: Delage, Y.; Hérouard, E. 1899. Spongiaires. Pp. 19-244. In: Traité de Zoologie concrète: Tome 2. 1re Partie, Mésozoaires - Spongiaires. (Schleicher Frères: Paris): 1-244. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Marshall, W. 1892. Spongiologische Beiträge: Festschrift. (Leipzig:):i-iv, 1-36, pls 1-8. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Burton, M. 1931b. Studies on Norwegian Sponges I. Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Forhandlinger 4 (38): 136-139. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Topsent, E. 1896a. Matériaux pour servir à l’étude de la faune des spongiaires de France. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France (9):113-133. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Schmidt, O. 1868. Die Spongien der Küste von Algier. Mit Nachträgen zu den Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres (Drittes Supplement). (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-iv, 1-44, pls I-V. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Wilson, H.V. (1894). Observations on the gemmule and egg development of marine sponges. J. Morph. 9: 277-406, pls XIV-XXV (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Blainville, H.M.D. De 1830. Zoophytes, Zoophyta. In: Cuvier, F.(Ed.), Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit eneux-mêmes, d’après l’état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement`a l’utilité qu en peuvent retirer la médeci [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: Howson, C.M.; Chambers, S.J. 1999. Ophlitaspongia and Ophlitaspongia papilla reinstated, and a new species of Ophlitaspongia described (Porifera: Demospongiae: Microcionidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 79(4): 609-620. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: Schmidt, O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

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Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Distribution

Mediterranean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]

Link

To ITIS

LSID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165790

Taxonomic
Edit history

Date	action	by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z	created	db_admin
2009-03-27 08:42:07Z	checked	van Soest, Rob
2010-11-08 18:02:23Z	changed	van Soest, Rob

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Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Halichondria (Halichondria) Fleming, 1828. 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=165790 on 2013-05-23

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