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WoRMS taxon detailsSpheciospongia vagabunda (Ridley, 1884)
 170563 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170563)
accepted
Species
Anthosigmella vagabunda (Ridley, 1884) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Spheciospongia vagabunda var. arabica (Topsent, 1893) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Spheciospongia vagabunda var. trincomaliensis (Ridley, 1884) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Spirastrella cylindrica Kieschnick, 1896 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spirastrella purpurea digitata Vosmaer, 1911 · unaccepted (unavailable name)
Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Spirastrella vagabunda var. arabica Topsent, 1893 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spirastrella vagabunda var. fungoides Dendy, 1905 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spirastrella vagabunda var. gallensis Dendy, 1905 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spirastrella vagabunda var. trincomaliensis Ridley, 1884 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Spirastrella vagabunda var. tubulodigitata Dendy, 1905 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Suberites trincomaliensis Carter, 1887 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
marine,
recent only
(of Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) Ridley, S.O. (1884). Spongiida. <em>Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert', 1881-2. (British Museum (Natural History): London).</em> 366-482, pls 39-43; 582-630, pls 53-54.
page(s): 468-469 [details] 
Type locality contained in Arnhem Coast to Gulf of Carpenteria
type locality contained in Arnhem Coast to Gulf of Carpenteria [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Description Steep-sided cone, up to 20 cm wide, 12 cm high and surrounded by shorter, rounded projections, or small cones, 1-4 cm high,...
Description Steep-sided cone, up to 20 cm wide, 12 cm high and surrounded by shorter, rounded projections, or small cones, 1-4 cm high, separated over substrate; base excavates coral rubble; surface undulating; bright orange brown or deep purplish-brown. Habitat: shallow lagoonal reefs. Distribution: Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1997). [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. Spheciospongia vagabunda (Ridley, 1884). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=170563 on 2025-04-27
Date action by 2005-07-10 18:05:41Z created db_admin
Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Suberites trincomaliensis Carter, 1887) Carter, H.J. (1887). Report on the Marine Sponges, chiefly from King Island, in the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr. John Anderson, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Museum. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology.</em> 21(127-128): 61-84, pls 5-7. [details] original description (of Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) Ridley, S.O. (1884). Spongiida. <em>Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert', 1881-2. (British Museum (Natural History): London).</em> 366-482, pls 39-43; 582-630, pls 53-54. page(s): 468-469 [details] original description (of Spirastrella cylindrica Kieschnick, 1896) Kieschnick, O. (1896). Silicispongiae von Ternate nach den Sammlungen von Herrn Prof. Dr. W. Kükenthal. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 19 (520): 526-534. page(s): 534 [details] original description (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. arabica Topsent, 1893) Topsent, E. (1893). Note sur quelques éponges du Golfe de Tadjoura recueillies par M. le Dr. L. Faurot. <em>Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France.</em> 18: 177-182. page(s): 177-179 [details] original description (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. fungoides Dendy, 1905) Dendy, A. (1905). Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman,at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>In: Herdman, W.A. (Ed.), Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. 3 (Supplement 18). (Royal Society: London).</em> Pp. 57-246, pls I-XVI. page(s): 124 [details] original description (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. gallensis Dendy, 1905) Dendy, A. (1905). Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman,at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>In: Herdman, W.A. (Ed.), Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. 3 (Supplement 18). (Royal Society: London).</em> Pp. 57-246, pls I-XVI. page(s): 124-125 [details] original description (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. trincomaliensis Ridley, 1884) Ridley, S.O. (1884). Spongiida. <em>Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert', 1881-2. (British Museum (Natural History): London).</em> 366-482, pls 39-43; 582-630, pls 53-54. page(s): 408 [details] original description (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. tubulodigitata Dendy, 1905) Dendy, A. (1905). Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman,at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>In: Herdman, W.A. (Ed.), Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. 3 (Supplement 18). (Royal Society: London).</em> Pp. 57-246, pls I-XVI. page(s): 123-124 [details] original description (of Spirastrella purpurea digitata Vosmaer, 1911) Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1911). The Porifera of the <i>Siboga</i>-expedition: 2. The genus <i>Spirastrella</i>. <i><i>Siboga</i>-Expeditie: uitkomsten op zoölogisch, botanisch, oceanographisch en geologisch gebied verzameld in Nederlandsch Oost-Indië 1899-1900 aan boord H.M. <i>Siboga</i> onder commando van Luitenant ter Zee 1e kl. G.F. Tydeman</i>, VIa(1). E.J. Brill: Leyden, The Netherlands. 69, plates I-XIV pp. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 26 [details] Othercontext source (HKRMS)
Morton, B. & Morton, J. (1983). <i>The sea shore ecology of Hong Kong</i>. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 350 pp. [details]
additional source Hooper, J.N.A. (2008). Sponges. Pp 170-186. In: P. Hutchings, M.J. Kingsford & I.O. Hoegh-Guldberg (eds). The Great Barrier Reef: Biology, Environment and management. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne. page(s): 180 [details] Available for editors  [request]additional source Sutcliffe, P.R.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Pitcher, C.R. 2010. The most common sponges on the Great Barrer Reef seabed, Australia, include species new to science (Phylum Porifera). Zootaxa 2616: 1-30., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02616p030.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Lim, S.C.; de Voogd, N.J.; Tan, K.S. (2008). A guide to sponges of Singapore. Science Centre Singapore, pp. 1-173. page(s): 59-62; note: identified as Spheciospongia cf. vagabunda [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Fromont, J.; Vanderklift, M.A. (2009). Porifera (sponges) of Mermaid, Scott and Seringapatam Reefs, north Western Australia. <em>Records of the Western Australian Museum.</em> Supplement 77: 89-103. page(s): 94 [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Samaai, T.; Pillay, R.; Janson, L. (2019). Shallow-water Demospongiae (Porifera) from Sodwana Bay, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4587(1): 1-85., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4587.1.1 page(s): 15-17 [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Calcinai, B.; Belfiore, G.; Pica, D.; Torsani, F.; Palma, M.; Cerrano, C. (2020). Porifera from Ponta do Ouro (Mozambique). <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 698: 1-56., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.698 page(s): 31-32 [details] Available for editors [request]additional source George, A.M.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Sluka, R.D.; Lazarus, S. (2020). A checklist of marine sponges (Porifera) of peninsula India. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4885(2): 277-300., available online at http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EC1CCF10-3E5F-4815-A393-AD9CF6B93C62 page(s): Table 2 [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Pereira, P.; Raghunathan, C. (2023). Descriptions of poorly known marine sponges (Phylum Porifera) from the Andaman Islands India with notes on their ecology. <em>Records of the Zological Survey of India, Special Volume.</em> 123 (iS2): 279-306. page(s): 286 [details] Available for editors [request] Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unknown type (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. arabica Topsent, 1893) MNHN DT 1867, geounit Gulf of Aden [details]
Unreviewed
Description Steep-sided cone, up to 20 cm wide, 12 cm high and surrounded by shorter, rounded projections, or small cones, 1-4 cm high, separated over substrate; base excavates coral rubble; surface undulating; bright orange brown or deep purplish-brown. Habitat: shallow lagoonal reefs. Distribution: Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1997). [details]
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Spirastrella cylindrica Kieschnick, 1896) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Spheciospongia vagabunda) To GenBank (38 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Spirastrella vagabunda var. trincomaliensis Ridley, 1884) To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Spheciospongia vagabunda) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (2 records) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (3 records) (from synonym Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (9 records) (from synonym Anthosigmella vagabunda (Ridley, 1884)) To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 078094) To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 086993) (from synonym Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) |
