African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Mycale (Kerasemna) humilis (Thiele, 1903)

AfReMaS taxon details

Mycale (Kerasemna) humilis (Thiele, 1903)

AphiaID

1477593 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1477593)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Mycale (Kerasemna) Pulitzer-Finali, 1982

Original name

Biemna humilis Thiele, 1903

Synonymised names

Biemna humilis Thiele, 1903 · unaccepted (genus transfer and subgenus assignment)

Desmacella humilis (Thiele, 1903) · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Kerasemna humilis (Thiele, 1903) · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Mycale humilis (Thiele, 1903) · alternative representation (subgenus assignment)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Biemna humilis Thiele, 1903) Thiele, J. (1903). Kieselschwämme von Ternate. II. Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft. 25: 933-968, pl. XVIII. [details]

Taxonomic citation

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 (Kerasemna) humilis (Thiele, 1903). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1477593 on 2026-07-07

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Mycale (Kerasemna) humilis (Thiele, 1903). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1477593 on 2026-07-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2021-01-19 11:36:02Z

created

van Soest, Rob W.M.

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original description (of Biemna humilis Thiele, 1903) Thiele, J. (1903). Kieselschwämme von Ternate. II. Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft. 25: 933-968, pl. XVIII. [details]

new combination reference Van Soest, R.W.M.; Aryasari, R.; De Voogd, N.J. (2021). Mycale species of the tropical Indo-West Pacific (Porifera, Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida). Zootaxa. 4912(1): 1-212., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4912.1.1
page(s): 98-103 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Desmacella humilis (Thiele, 1903))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Biemna humilis Thiele, 1903)