WoRMS taxon details
Hippospongia Schulze, 1879
131757 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131757)
accepted
Genus
Spongia equina Schmidt, 1862 accepted as Hippospongia communis (Lamarck, 1814) (type by subsequent designation)
Aphrodite Lendenfeld, 1886 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Ceratodendron Marshall, 1877 · unaccepted (preoccupied and junior synonym)
Hippiospongia de Laubenfels, 1936 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Silicifibris Lendenfeld, 1886 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
- Species Hippospongia ammata de Laubenfels, 1954
- Species Hippospongia anfractuosa (Carter, 1885)
- Species Hippospongia bergquistia Lee & Sim, 2000
- Species Hippospongia canaliculata (Lendenfeld, 1886)
- Species Hippospongia cerebrum Lendenfeld, 1889
- Species Hippospongia communis (Lamarck, 1814)
- Species Hippospongia cylindrica Lendenfeld, 1889
- Species Hippospongia densa Lendenfeld, 1889
- Species Hippospongia derasa Ridley, 1884
- Species Hippospongia elastica Lendenfeld, 1889
- Species Hippospongia fistulosa Lendenfeld, 1889
- Species Hippospongia galea (Lendenfeld, 1886)
- Species Hippospongia gossypina (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
- Species Hippospongia lachne (de Laubenfels, 1936)
- Species Hippospongia laxa Lendenfeld, 1889
- Species Hippospongia massa Lendenfeld, 1889
- Species Hippospongia mauritiana (Hyatt, 1877)
- Species Hippospongia micropora (Lendenfeld, 1889)
- Species Hippospongia mollissima (Lendenfeld, 1889)
- Species Hippospongia multicia Wiedenmayer in Hooper & Wiedenmayer, 1994
- Species Hippospongia nigra (Lendenfeld, 1886)
- Species Hippospongia osculata Lendenfeld, 1889
- Species Hippospongia seposita Wiedenmayer in Hooper & Wiedenmayer, 1994
- Species Hippospongia typica Lendenfeld, 1889
- Species Hippospongia fusca (Lamarck, 1814) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Hippospongia agaricina (Pallas, 1766) accepted as Spongia (Spongia) agaricina Pallas, 1766 (reverted genus transfer)
- Species Hippospongia anomala Poléjaeff, 1884 accepted as Hyattella intestinalis (Lamarck, 1814) (genus transfer & junior synonym)
- Species Hippospongia aphroditella Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Coscinoderma nardorus (Lendenfeld, 1886) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
- Species Hippospongia aruensis (Hentschel, 1912) accepted as Ircinia aruensis (Hentschel, 1912) (genus transfer)
- Species Hippospongia clathrata (Carter, 1881) accepted as Hyattella intestinalis (Lamarck, 1814) (genus transfer)
- Species Hippospongia clathrus (Lamarck, 1814) accepted as Hippospongia seposita Wiedenmayer in Hooper & Wiedenmayer, 1994 (unaccepted > junior homonym)
- Species Hippospongia decidua (Hyatt, 1877) accepted as Hyattella sinuosa (Pallas, 1766) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
- Species Hippospongia dentata (Hyatt, 1877) accepted as Hippospongia gossypina (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (genus transfer)
- Species Hippospongia dura Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Hyattella cavernosa (Pallas, 1766) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
- Species Hippospongia equina (Schmidt, 1862) accepted as Hippospongia communis (Lamarck, 1814) (junior synonym)
- Species Hippospongia flabellum Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Hippospongia canaliculata (Lendenfeld, 1886) (junior synonym)
- Species Hippospongia frondosa Hentschel, 1912 accepted as Ircinia ramosa (Keller, 1889) (genus transfer)
- Species Hippospongia intestinalis (Lamarck, 1814) accepted as Hyattella intestinalis (Lamarck, 1814)
- Species Hippospongia metachromia de Laubenfels, 1954 accepted as Dactylospongia metachromia (de Laubenfels, 1954) (genus transfer)
- Species Hippospongia mollissima Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Hippospongia multicia Wiedenmayer in Hooper & Wiedenmayer, 1994 (preoccupied)
- Species Hippospongia nardorus (Lendenfeld, 1886) accepted as Coscinoderma nardorus (Lendenfeld, 1886) (genus transfer)
- Species Hippospongia pacifica (Hyatt, 1877) accepted as Hyattella hancocki (Dickinson, 1945) (unavailable original name)
- Species Hippospongia reticulata (Lendenfeld, 1886) accepted as Spongia (Spongia) reticulata (Lendenfeld, 1886) (genus transfer and subgenus assignment)
- Species Hippospongia sinuosa (Pallas, 1766) accepted as Hyattella sinuosa (Pallas, 1766) (genus transfer)
- Species Hippospongia tingens Lendenfeld, 1886 accepted as Dysidea implexa (Ridley, 1884)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Schulze, F.E. (1879). Untersuchungen über den Bau und die Entwicklung der Spongien. Siebente Mittheilung. Die Familie der Spongidae. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 32: 593-660, pls XXXIV-XXXVIII.
page(s): 614 [details]
page(s): 614 [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.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2026). World Porifera Database. Hippospongia Schulze, 1879. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131757 on 2026-05-22
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Nomenclature
original description
Schulze, F.E. (1879). Untersuchungen über den Bau und die Entwicklung der Spongien. Siebente Mittheilung. Die Familie der Spongidae. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 32: 593-660, pls XXXIV-XXXVIII.
page(s): 614 [details]
original description (of Aphrodite Lendenfeld, 1886) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1886 [1885]). A Monograph of the Australian Sponges. Part V. The Auleninae. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 10 (3): 282-325, pls 26-35. [details]
original description (of Ceratodendron Marshall, 1877) Marshall, W. (1877). Spongiologische Mittheilungen. <em>Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte in München.</em> 1-187.
page(s): 187 [details]
original description (of Hippiospongia de Laubenfels, 1936) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1936). A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. <em>Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication.</em> 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30) 1-225, pls 1-22.
page(s): 11-12 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Silicifibris Lendenfeld, 1886) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1886 [1885]). A Monograph of the Australian Sponges. Part VI. The Genus <i>Euspongia</i>. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 10 (3): 481-553, pls 36-38. [details]
basis of record Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R. (2002). Family Spongiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 1051-1060. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) <i>Systema Porifera - A guide to the classification of sponges</i>. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_101
page(s): 1055 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Bergquist, P.R. (1980). A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida (class Demospongiae). <em>New Zealand Journal of Zoology.</em> 7 (4): 443-503., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03014223.1980.11760680
page(s): 452 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 614 [details]
original description (of Aphrodite Lendenfeld, 1886) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1886 [1885]). A Monograph of the Australian Sponges. Part V. The Auleninae. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 10 (3): 282-325, pls 26-35. [details]
original description (of Ceratodendron Marshall, 1877) Marshall, W. (1877). Spongiologische Mittheilungen. <em>Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte in München.</em> 1-187.
page(s): 187 [details]
original description (of Hippiospongia de Laubenfels, 1936) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1936). A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. <em>Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication.</em> 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30) 1-225, pls 1-22.
page(s): 11-12 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Silicifibris Lendenfeld, 1886) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1886 [1885]). A Monograph of the Australian Sponges. Part VI. The Genus <i>Euspongia</i>. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 10 (3): 481-553, pls 36-38. [details]
basis of record Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R. (2002). Family Spongiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 1051-1060. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) <i>Systema Porifera - A guide to the classification of sponges</i>. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_101
page(s): 1055 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Bergquist, P.R. (1980). A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida (class Demospongiae). <em>New Zealand Journal of Zoology.</em> 7 (4): 443-503., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03014223.1980.11760680
page(s): 452 [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
redescription
Lendenfeld, R. von. (1889). A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. (Trübner and Co.: London). iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.20735531;view=1up;seq=1
page(s): 280-296 [details]
page(s): 280-296 [details]
Other
additional source
Vacelet, J. (1959). Répartition générale des éponges et systématique des éponges cornées de la région de Marseille et de quelques stations méditerranéennes. <em>Recueil des Travaux de la Station marine d'Endoume.</em> 16 (26): 39-101, pls 1-3.
page(s): 79-80 [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]
page(s): 79-80 [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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ウマカイメン属 [from synonym] | [details] |
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hippospongia)
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 074209)
To ITIS
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 074209)
To ITIS
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