WoRMS name details
Mycale lingua (Bowerbank, 1866)
133289 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:133289)
alternative representation (subgenus assignment)
Species
- Variety Mycale lingua var. lundbecki Rezvoi, 1924 accepted as Mycale (Rhaphidotheca) marshallhalli (Kent, 1870) (junior synonym)
- Variety Mycale lingua var. placoides Carter (1876) accepted as Mycale (Mycale) lingua (Bowerbank, 1866)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Hymeniacidon lingua Bowerbank, 1866) Bowerbank, J.S. (1866). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1905089
page(s): 187-190 [details]
page(s): 187-190 [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. (2025). World Porifera Database. Mycale lingua (Bowerbank, 1866). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=133289 on 2025-05-07
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(of Hymeniacidon lingua Bowerbank, 1866) Bowerbank, J.S. (1866). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1905089
page(s): 187-190 [details]
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002 [2004]). Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002). Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 187-190 [details]
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002 [2004]). Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002). Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details] Available for editors
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Lundbeck, W. (1905). Porifera. (Part II.) Desmacidonidae. <em>The Danish Ingolf-Expedition.</em> 6(2):1-219.
page(s): 29-33 [details]
page(s): 29-33 [details]
Other
additional source
Burton, M. (1931). The Folden Fiord. Report on the sponges collected by Mr. Soot-Ryven in the Folden Fiord in the year 1923. <em>Tromsø Museum Skrifter.</em> 1 (13): 1-8.
page(s): 4 [details]
additional source Rezvoi, P. (1924). Contribution towards the sponge fauna of the Kara and Barents Seas (In Russian with English summary). <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Lesshaft.</em> 8: 241-250.
page(s): 244 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Cabioch, L. (1973). Additions à l'inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Spongiaires. <em>Travaux de la Station Biologique de Roscoff (n.s.).</em> 20 (31): 5-6.
page(s): 6 [details]
additional source Tendal, O.S. (1970). De Danske Peary Land Ekspeditioner, I. Sponges from Jørgen Brønlund Fjord, North Greenland. <em>Meddelelser om Grønland.</em> Meddelelser om Grønland.
page(s): 7-8 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pansini, M.; Morri, C.; Bianchi, C.N. (2000). The sponge community of a subtidal area with hydrothermal vents: Milos island, Aegean Sea. <em>Estuarine Coastal Shelf Science.</em> 51, 627-635.
page(s): 630 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Solórzano, M.R. (1990). Poríferos del litoral gallego: estudio faunístico, distribución e inventario. <em>Phd Thesis Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela.</em> 1036 pp.
page(s): 629-632 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Dinn, C.; Leys, S.P. (2018). Field Guide to sponges of Eastern Canadian Arctic. <em>Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, T6G 2E9.</em> 1-102.
page(s): 61-62 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sitjà, C.; Maldonado, M.; Farias, C.; Rueda, J.L. (2019). Deep-water sponge fauna from the mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz (North Atlantic, Spain). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 99 (4): 807 - 831., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315418000589
page(s): SUP MAT Appendix 1 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, <b><i>in</i></b>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification</i>. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Descatoire, A. (1966). Sur quelques Démosponges de l'Archipel de Glénan. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 7 (3): 231-246, pl. 1. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 239-240 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Alander, H. (1942). Sponges from the Swedish west-coast and adjacent waters. <em>Ph.D. Thesis. (University of Lund, H. Struves: Gøteborg).</em> Pp. 1-95, 15 pls.
page(s): 65 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bakus, G.J. (1966). Marine poeciloscleridan sponges of the San Juan Archipelago, Washington. <em>Journal of Zoology.</em> 149: 415-531, pls I-II.
note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Pansini, M.; Uriz, M.J. (1994). Spongiaires bathyaux de la mer d'Alboran et du golfe ibéro-marocain. <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 160: 1-174., available online at http://bibliotheques.mnhn.fr/EXPLOITATION/infodoc/ged/viewportalpublished.ashx?eid=IFD_FICJOINT_MNHN_MMNHN_S000_1994_T160_N000_1
page(s): 96-97; fig 70 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Brøndsted, H.V. (1933). The Godthaab Expedition 1928. Porifera. <em>Meddelelser om Grønland.</em> 79 (5):1-25.
page(s): 10 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Burton, M. (1959). Spongia. Pp. 1-71. <i>In</i>: Fridriksson, A. & Tuxen, S.L.(Eds), The Zoology of Iceland. 2(3-4). Ejnar Munksgaard: Copenhagen& Reykjavik.
page(s): 26 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Descatoire, A. (1969). Peuplements sessiles de l'Archipel de Glénan de l'infralittoral rocheux. I. - Inventaire: Spongiaires. <em>Vie et Milieu (B, Océanographie).</em> 20 (1B): 177-209.
page(s): 191 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ferrer Hernández, F. (1914). Esponjas del Cantábrico. Parte 2. III. Myxospongida. IV. Tetraxonida. V. Triaxonida. <em>Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Zoológica).</em> 17: 1-46.
page(s): 36-37 [details]
additional source Hentschel, E. (1929). Die Kiesel- und Hornschwämme des Nördlichen Eismeers. Pp. 857-1042, pls XII-XIV. <em>In: Römer, F., Schaudinn, F., Brauer, A. & Arndt, W. (Eds), Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898.</em> 5 (4) (G.Fischer, Jena).
page(s): 873 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Koltun, V.M. (1959 [1971]). [Siliceous horny sponges of the northern and fareastern seas of the U.S.S.R.] [translation in English by Fisheries Research Board of Canada Translation Series No. 1842]. <em>Opredeliteli po faune SSR, izdavaemye Zoologicheskim muzeem Akademii nauk.</em> 67: 1-365. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Koltun, V.M. (1959). Siliceous horny sponges of the northern and far eastern seas of the U.S.S.R. (Order Cornacuspongida). [In Russian] Opredeliteli po faune SSR. <em>Izdatelstvo Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii nauk USSR, Moscow-Leningrad.</em> 67: 1–236.
page(s): 60-61 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1983). A collection of Mediterranean Demospongiae (Porifera) with, in appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the Mediterranean Sea. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 84: 445-621.
page(s): 553 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sarà, M. (1961). La fauna di Poriferi delle grotte delle isole Tremiti. Studio ecologico e sistematico. <em>Archivio zoologico italiano.</em> 46: 1-59,pls I-II.
page(s): 43 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Stephens, J. (1912). A Biological Survey of Clare Island in the County of Mayo, Ireland and the Adjoining District. Marine Porifera. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.</em> 31 (Section 3, Part 59): 1-42.
page(s): 33-34 [details]
page(s): 4 [details]
additional source Rezvoi, P. (1924). Contribution towards the sponge fauna of the Kara and Barents Seas (In Russian with English summary). <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Lesshaft.</em> 8: 241-250.
page(s): 244 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Cabioch, L. (1973). Additions à l'inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Spongiaires. <em>Travaux de la Station Biologique de Roscoff (n.s.).</em> 20 (31): 5-6.
page(s): 6 [details]
additional source Tendal, O.S. (1970). De Danske Peary Land Ekspeditioner, I. Sponges from Jørgen Brønlund Fjord, North Greenland. <em>Meddelelser om Grønland.</em> Meddelelser om Grønland.
page(s): 7-8 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pansini, M.; Morri, C.; Bianchi, C.N. (2000). The sponge community of a subtidal area with hydrothermal vents: Milos island, Aegean Sea. <em>Estuarine Coastal Shelf Science.</em> 51, 627-635.
page(s): 630 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Solórzano, M.R. (1990). Poríferos del litoral gallego: estudio faunístico, distribución e inventario. <em>Phd Thesis Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela.</em> 1036 pp.
page(s): 629-632 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Dinn, C.; Leys, S.P. (2018). Field Guide to sponges of Eastern Canadian Arctic. <em>Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, T6G 2E9.</em> 1-102.
page(s): 61-62 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sitjà, C.; Maldonado, M.; Farias, C.; Rueda, J.L. (2019). Deep-water sponge fauna from the mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz (North Atlantic, Spain). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 99 (4): 807 - 831., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315418000589
page(s): SUP MAT Appendix 1 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, <b><i>in</i></b>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification</i>. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Descatoire, A. (1966). Sur quelques Démosponges de l'Archipel de Glénan. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 7 (3): 231-246, pl. 1. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 239-240 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Alander, H. (1942). Sponges from the Swedish west-coast and adjacent waters. <em>Ph.D. Thesis. (University of Lund, H. Struves: Gøteborg).</em> Pp. 1-95, 15 pls.
page(s): 65 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bakus, G.J. (1966). Marine poeciloscleridan sponges of the San Juan Archipelago, Washington. <em>Journal of Zoology.</em> 149: 415-531, pls I-II.
note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Pansini, M.; Uriz, M.J. (1994). Spongiaires bathyaux de la mer d'Alboran et du golfe ibéro-marocain. <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 160: 1-174., available online at http://bibliotheques.mnhn.fr/EXPLOITATION/infodoc/ged/viewportalpublished.ashx?eid=IFD_FICJOINT_MNHN_MMNHN_S000_1994_T160_N000_1
page(s): 96-97; fig 70 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Brøndsted, H.V. (1933). The Godthaab Expedition 1928. Porifera. <em>Meddelelser om Grønland.</em> 79 (5):1-25.
page(s): 10 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Burton, M. (1959). Spongia. Pp. 1-71. <i>In</i>: Fridriksson, A. & Tuxen, S.L.(Eds), The Zoology of Iceland. 2(3-4). Ejnar Munksgaard: Copenhagen& Reykjavik.
page(s): 26 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Descatoire, A. (1969). Peuplements sessiles de l'Archipel de Glénan de l'infralittoral rocheux. I. - Inventaire: Spongiaires. <em>Vie et Milieu (B, Océanographie).</em> 20 (1B): 177-209.
page(s): 191 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Ferrer Hernández, F. (1914). Esponjas del Cantábrico. Parte 2. III. Myxospongida. IV. Tetraxonida. V. Triaxonida. <em>Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Zoológica).</em> 17: 1-46.
page(s): 36-37 [details]
additional source Hentschel, E. (1929). Die Kiesel- und Hornschwämme des Nördlichen Eismeers. Pp. 857-1042, pls XII-XIV. <em>In: Römer, F., Schaudinn, F., Brauer, A. & Arndt, W. (Eds), Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898.</em> 5 (4) (G.Fischer, Jena).
page(s): 873 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Koltun, V.M. (1959 [1971]). [Siliceous horny sponges of the northern and fareastern seas of the U.S.S.R.] [translation in English by Fisheries Research Board of Canada Translation Series No. 1842]. <em>Opredeliteli po faune SSR, izdavaemye Zoologicheskim muzeem Akademii nauk.</em> 67: 1-365. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Koltun, V.M. (1959). Siliceous horny sponges of the northern and far eastern seas of the U.S.S.R. (Order Cornacuspongida). [In Russian] Opredeliteli po faune SSR. <em>Izdatelstvo Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii nauk USSR, Moscow-Leningrad.</em> 67: 1–236.
page(s): 60-61 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1983). A collection of Mediterranean Demospongiae (Porifera) with, in appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the Mediterranean Sea. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 84: 445-621.
page(s): 553 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sarà, M. (1961). La fauna di Poriferi delle grotte delle isole Tremiti. Studio ecologico e sistematico. <em>Archivio zoologico italiano.</em> 46: 1-59,pls I-II.
page(s): 43 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Stephens, J. (1912). A Biological Survey of Clare Island in the County of Mayo, Ireland and the Adjoining District. Marine Porifera. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.</em> 31 (Section 3, Part 59): 1-42.
page(s): 33-34 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | sheep's tongue spongefurrowed horny sponge | [details] |
| French | éponge rainurée | [details] |
| German | Zungenschwamm | [details] |
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Mycale lingua)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (1 record)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 095484)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Mycale lingua)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (1 record)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 095484)
To ITIS
