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Axinyssa Lendenfeld, 1897
131802 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131802)
accepted
Genus
Axinyssa topsenti Lendenfeld, 1897 (type by monotypy)
Astromimus Lendenfeld, 1897 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Axinomimus Laubenfels, 1936 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Oxeosarcodea de Laubenfels, 1954 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Pseudaxinyssa Burton, 1931 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
- Species Axinyssa aculeata Wilson, 1925
- Species Axinyssa ambrosia (de Laubenfels, 1936)
- Species Axinyssa aplysinoides (Dendy, 1922)
- Species Axinyssa aurantiaca (Schmidt, 1864)
- Species Axinyssa bergquistae (Hooper, Cook, Hobbs & Kennedy, 1997)
- Species Axinyssa cavernosa (Topsent, 1897)
- Species Axinyssa digitata (Cabioch, 1968)
- Species Axinyssa diversicolor (Carballo, 2000)
- Species Axinyssa djiferi Boury-Esnault, Marschal, Kornprobst & Barnathan, 2002
- Species Axinyssa gracilis (Hentschel, 1912)
- Species Axinyssa gravieri Topsent, 1906
- Species Axinyssa isabela Carballo & Cruz-Barraza, 2008
- Species Axinyssa mertoni (Hentschel, 1912)
- Species Axinyssa michaelis Kefalas & Castritsi-Catharios, 2007
- Species Axinyssa oinops (de Laubenfels, 1954)
- Species Axinyssa papillosa (Sarà & Siribelli, 1962)
- Species Axinyssa papuensis Thomas, 2002
- Species Axinyssa paradoxa (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
- Species Axinyssa piloerecta Turner, Morrow, Picton, Goodwin & Thacker 2025
- Species Axinyssa radiata (Lévi & Lévi, 1983)
- Species Axinyssa tenax Pulitzer-Finali, 1993
- Species Axinyssa tenuispiculata (Burton, 1931)
- Species Axinyssa terpnis (de Laubenfels, 1954)
- Species Axinyssa tethyoides Kirkpatrick, 1903
- Species Axinyssa topsenti Lendenfeld, 1897
- Species Axinyssa tuscara (Ristau, 1978)
- Species Axinyssa valida (Thiele, 1899)
- Species Axinyssa variabilis (Lindgren, 1897)
- Species Axinyssa yumae (Pulitzer-Finali, 1986)
- Species Axinyssa flabelliformis (Keller, 1889) accepted as Echinodictyum flabelliforme (Keller, 1889)
- Species Axinyssa flavolivescens Hofman & Kielman, 1992 accepted as Suberea flavolivescens (Hofman & Kielman, 1992)
- Species Axinyssa lithophaga (Wiedenmayer, 1977) accepted as Aaptos pernucleata (Carter, 1870) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
- Species Axinyssa pitys (de Laubenfels, 1954) accepted as Axinyssa mertoni (Hentschel, 1912) (junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Lendenfeld, R. von. (1897). Spongien von Sansibar. <em>Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft.</em> 21: 93-133, pls 9-10.
page(s): 116 [details]
page(s): 116 [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. (2026). World Porifera Database. Axinyssa Lendenfeld, 1897. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131802 on 2026-01-18
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original description
Lendenfeld, R. von. (1897). Spongien von Sansibar. <em>Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft.</em> 21: 93-133, pls 9-10.
page(s): 116 [details]
original description (of Pseudaxinyssa Burton, 1931) Burton, M. (1931). On a Collection of Marine Sponges mostly from the Natal Coast. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 6 (3): 337-358.
page(s): 350 [details]
original description (of Astromimus Lendenfeld, 1897) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1897). Die Clavulina der Adria. <em>Nova acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino Carolinae germanicae naturaecuriosorum.</em> 69: 1-251, pls I-XII.
page(s): 148 [details]
original description (of Axinomimus 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): 163 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Oxeosarcodea de Laubenfels, 1954) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1954). The Sponges of the West-Central Pacific. <em>Oregon State Monographs. Studies in Zoology.</em> 7: i-x, 1-306,pls I-XII.
page(s): 230 [details]
basis of record Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-816. <em>In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii.</em> ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002[2004]). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-815. <em>In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii.</em> ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 116 [details]
original description (of Pseudaxinyssa Burton, 1931) Burton, M. (1931). On a Collection of Marine Sponges mostly from the Natal Coast. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 6 (3): 337-358.
page(s): 350 [details]
original description (of Astromimus Lendenfeld, 1897) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1897). Die Clavulina der Adria. <em>Nova acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino Carolinae germanicae naturaecuriosorum.</em> 69: 1-251, pls I-XII.
page(s): 148 [details]
original description (of Axinomimus 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): 163 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Oxeosarcodea de Laubenfels, 1954) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1954). The Sponges of the West-Central Pacific. <em>Oregon State Monographs. Studies in Zoology.</em> 7: i-x, 1-306,pls I-XII.
page(s): 230 [details]
basis of record Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-816. <em>In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii.</em> ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002[2004]). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-815. <em>In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii.</em> ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
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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]
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Synonymy Thanks to Andreu Santin Muriel for pointing out that the publication date for the synonymized genus Astromimus Von Lendenfeld (1897) is the same as that for the senior name Axinyssa, so it is not certain that the present genus name is the senior name of both synonyms. Since Astromimus has been used only for its type species and that species is a junior synonym for an earlier named species, leaving both the genus name Astromimus and its type species name unused, it is largely unused. If at a future occasion the exact publication dates for both synonyms would result in the present name being the junior name of the two then we would invoke ICZN art. 23.9 (reversal in precedence) to suppress Astromimus in favor of the present name. [details]
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