Porifera name details

Spongia penicillus Montagu, 1814

193700  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:193700)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Porifera (Phylum)
  4. Demospongiae (Class)
  5. Keratosa (Subclass)
  6. Dictyoceratida (Order)
  7. Spongiidae (Family)
  8. Spongia (Genus)
  9. Spongia penicillus (Species)
 unaccepted (genus transfer)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Montagu, G. (1814 [1818]). An Essay on Sponges, with Descriptions of all the Species that have been discovered on the Coast of Great Britain. <em>Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society.</em> 2(1): 67-122, pls III-XVI., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45847761
page(s): 93-95 [details] OpenAccess publication
Holotype  BMNH 30.7.3.26, geounit Celtic Seas  
Holotype BMNH 30.7.3.26, geounit Celtic Seas [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. Spongia penicillus Montagu, 1814. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=193700 on 2025-05-08
Date
action
by
2005-12-18 15:00:44Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-05-21 09:20:31Z
changed
van Soest, Rob W.M.
2014-02-16 18:30:10Z
changed
van Soest, Rob W.M.

original description Montagu, G. (1814 [1818]). An Essay on Sponges, with Descriptions of all the Species that have been discovered on the Coast of Great Britain. <em>Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society.</em> 2(1): 67-122, pls III-XVI., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45847761
page(s): 93-95 [details] OpenAccess publication

redescription Morrow, C.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2000). Redescription of the type species of the genus <i>Polymastia</i> Bowerbank, 1864 (Porifera, Demospongiae, Hadromerida). <em>Zoosystema.</em> 22 (2): 327-335. [details] OpenAccess publication
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype BMNH 30.7.3.26, geounit Celtic Seas [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) 
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 5 proteins) 
To PESI 

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