WoRMS taxon details
Hippospongia communis (Lamarck, 1814)
132377 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132377)
accepted
Species
Euspongia equina (Schmidt, 1862) · unaccepted
Hippiospongia communis (Lamarck, 1814) · unaccepted
Hippospongia communis var. equina Schmidt, 1862 · unaccepted
Hippospongia equina (Schmidt, 1862) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Spongia communis Lamarck, 1814 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Spongia communis aurantia Lamarck, 1814 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Spongia communis fusca Lamarck, 1814 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Spongia communis lutea Lamarck, 1814 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Spongia equina Schmidt, 1862 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
- Subspecies Hippospongia communis ammata de Laubenfels, 1954 accepted as Hippospongia ammata de Laubenfels, 1954 (status change)
- Variety Hippospongia communis var. equina Schmidt, 1862 accepted as Hippospongia communis (Lamarck, 1814)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Spongia communis Lamarck, 1814) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1814 [1813]). Sur les polypiers empâtés. <em>Annales du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 20: 294-312; 370-386; 432-458.
page(s): 370 [details]
page(s): 370 [details]
Lectotype (of Spongia communis Lamarck, 1814) NNM RMNH...
Lectotype (of Spongia communis Lamarck, 1814) NNM RMNH Por. 475 [details]
Taxonomy Although Lamarck (1814: 370) clearly states that his specimens (in three varieties) came from the Red Sea and the Indian...
Taxonomy Although Lamarck (1814: 370) clearly states that his specimens (in three varieties) came from the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, subsequent authors (e.g. Topsent, 1931) very much doubted this origin. It is now generally assumed, despite the label with the lectotype ('Mer Rouge'), that Spongia communis was from the Mediterranean. No Hippospongia species have subsequently been reported from the Red Sea. [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. Hippospongia communis (Lamarck, 1814). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=132377 on 2025-04-23
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Spongia communis Lamarck, 1814) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1814 [1813]). Sur les polypiers empâtés. <em>Annales du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 20: 294-312; 370-386; 432-458.
page(s): 370 [details]
original description (of Spongia equina Schmidt, 1862) Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 23; pl II fig 5 [details]
original description (of Spongia communis fusca Lamarck, 1814) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1814 [1813]). Sur les polypiers empâtés. <em>Annales du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 20: 294-312; 370-386; 432-458. [details]
original description (of Spongia communis lutea Lamarck, 1814) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1814 [1813]). Sur les polypiers empâtés. <em>Annales du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 20: 294-312; 370-386; 432-458. [details]
original description (of Spongia communis aurantia Lamarck, 1814) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1814 [1813]). Sur les polypiers empâtés. <em>Annales du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 20: 294-312; 370-386; 432-458. [details]
page(s): 370 [details]
original description (of Spongia equina Schmidt, 1862) Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 23; pl II fig 5 [details]
original description (of Spongia communis fusca Lamarck, 1814) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1814 [1813]). Sur les polypiers empâtés. <em>Annales du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 20: 294-312; 370-386; 432-458. [details]
original description (of Spongia communis lutea Lamarck, 1814) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1814 [1813]). Sur les polypiers empâtés. <em>Annales du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 20: 294-312; 370-386; 432-458. [details]
original description (of Spongia communis aurantia Lamarck, 1814) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1814 [1813]). Sur les polypiers empâtés. <em>Annales du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 20: 294-312; 370-386; 432-458. [details]
Other
additional source
Santín, A.; Grinyó, J.; Ambroso, S.; Uriz, M.-J.; Gori, A.; Dominguez-Carrió, C.; Gili, J.-M. (2018). Sponge assemblages on the deep Mediterranean continental shelf and slope (Menorca Channel, Western Mediterranean Sea). <em>Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers.</em> 131: 75-86., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2017.11.003
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additional source Hussein, K.B.; Talet, L.B. (2019). A preliminary inventory of biodiversity and benthic habitats of “Plane” Island (Paloma) in Oran Bay, north western Algeria, (western Mediterranean). <em>Journal of the Black Sea / Mediterranean Environment.</em> 25 (1): 49-72.
page(s): 59 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pansini, M.; Musso, B. (1991). Sponges from trawl-exploitable bottoms of the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas: distribution and ecology. <em>P.S.Z.N.I.: Marine Ecology.</em> 12 (4): 317-329.
page(s): 320 [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]
additional source Boury-Esnault, N. (1971). Spongiaires de la zone rocheuse de Banyuls-sur-Mer. II. Systématique. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 22(2): 287-349.
page(s): 339-340 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pouliquen, L. (1972). Les spongiaires des grottes sous-marines de la région de Marseille: Ecologie et systématique. <em>Téthys.</em> 3(4): 717-758.
page(s): 728 [details]
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G.; Pronzato, R. (1976). Report on a Collection of Sponges from the Bay of Naples. II. Keratosa. <em>Pubblicazioni della Stazione zoologica di Napoli.</em> 40(1): 83-104.
page(s): 90 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G.; Pronzato, R. (1981 [1980]). The Keratosa in a collection of Mediterranean sponges mainly from the Italian coasts. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 83: 127-158.
page(s): 139 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Rützler, K. (1965). Systematik und Ökologie der Poriferen aus Litoral-Schattengebieten der Nordadria. <em>Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere.</em> 55(1): 1-82.
page(s): 46 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sarà, M. (1960). Poriferi del litorale dell'isola d'lschia e loro ripartizioneper ambienti. <em>Pubblicazioni della Stazione zoologica di Napoli.</em> 31(3):421-472, pls XII-XIII.
page(s): 469 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Tanita, S.; Hoshino, T. (1989). The Demospongiae of Sagami Bay. <em>Biological Laboratory, Imperial Household: Japan.</em> i-xiii, 1-197 [in English], pls 1-19; 1-166 [in Japanese], 1 map.
page(s): 188; note: Misapplication. [details] Available for editors [request]
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): 80-81 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ben Mustapha, K; Zarrouk, S.; Souissi, A.; El Abed, A. (2003). Diversité des Démosponges Tunisiennes. <em>Bulletin Institut national des Sciences et Technologies de la mer de Salammbô.</em> 30, 55-78.
page(s): 73 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Cruz, T. (2002). Esponjas marinas de Canarias. <em>Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias.</em> S/C Tenerife. 260 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pronzato, R.; Manconi, R. (2008). Mediterranean commercial sponges: over 5000 years of natural history and cultural heritage. <em>Marine Ecology.</em> 29 (2), 146-166., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.2008.00235.x
page(s): 156 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bibiloni, M-A; Gili,J-M. (1982). Primera aportación al conocimiento de las cuevas de la Isla de Mallorca. <em>Oecologia aquatica.</em> 6: 227-234.
page(s): 232 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Voultsiadou-Koukoura, E.; Koukouras, A. (1993). Contribution to the knowledge of Keratose sponges (Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida, Verongida: Demospongiae, Porifera) of the Aegean Sea. <em>Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin.</em> 69, 57-72.
page(s): 60 [details]
additional source Kefalas, E.; Castritsi-Catharios, I; Miliou, H. (2003). The impacts of scallop dredging on sponge assemblages in the Gulf of Kalloni (Aegean Sea, northeastern Mediterranean). <em>ICES Journal of Marine Science.</em> 60, 402-10.
page(s): 406 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Uriz, M.J. (1979). Nota sobre algunas esponjas (Demonspongia) nuevas para el litoral iberico. <em>Primer Simposio de Bentos, San Sebastian 9-11 Abril 1979.</em> 65-86.
page(s): 78-79 [details]
additional source Vacelet, J. (1991). Statut des éponges commerciales en Méditerranée. pp. 35-42 <i>in</i>: Les espèces marines à protéger en Méditerranée. Boudouresque, C.-F., Avon, M., & Graves, V. (eds) Gis Posidonie publication, France.
page(s): 35 [details] Available for editors [request]
biology source Vacelet, J.; Vacelet, E.; Gaino, E.; Gallissian, M.-F. (1994). Bacterial attack of spongin skeleton during the 1986-1990 Mediterranean sponge disease. <i>in</i>: Sponges in Time and Space, van Soest, van Kempen & Braekman (eds) Balkema. Rotterdam. pp 355-362.
page(s): 356-358 [details] Available for editors [request]
biology source Zarrouk, S.; Ereskovsky, A.V.; Ben Mustapha, K.; Abed, A.E.; Pérez, T. (2013). Sexual reproduction of <i>Hippospongia communis</i> (Lamarck, 1814) (Dictyoceratida, Demospongiae): comparison of two populations living under contrasting environmental conditions. <em>Marine Ecology.</em> 34(4): 432-442., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/maec.12043
note: life cycle [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): Supplementary data [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Hussein, K.B.; Talet, L.B. (2019). A preliminary inventory of biodiversity and benthic habitats of “Plane” Island (Paloma) in Oran Bay, north western Algeria, (western Mediterranean). <em>Journal of the Black Sea / Mediterranean Environment.</em> 25 (1): 49-72.
page(s): 59 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pansini, M.; Musso, B. (1991). Sponges from trawl-exploitable bottoms of the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas: distribution and ecology. <em>P.S.Z.N.I.: Marine Ecology.</em> 12 (4): 317-329.
page(s): 320 [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]
additional source Boury-Esnault, N. (1971). Spongiaires de la zone rocheuse de Banyuls-sur-Mer. II. Systématique. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 22(2): 287-349.
page(s): 339-340 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pouliquen, L. (1972). Les spongiaires des grottes sous-marines de la région de Marseille: Ecologie et systématique. <em>Téthys.</em> 3(4): 717-758.
page(s): 728 [details]
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G.; Pronzato, R. (1976). Report on a Collection of Sponges from the Bay of Naples. II. Keratosa. <em>Pubblicazioni della Stazione zoologica di Napoli.</em> 40(1): 83-104.
page(s): 90 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G.; Pronzato, R. (1981 [1980]). The Keratosa in a collection of Mediterranean sponges mainly from the Italian coasts. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 83: 127-158.
page(s): 139 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Rützler, K. (1965). Systematik und Ökologie der Poriferen aus Litoral-Schattengebieten der Nordadria. <em>Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere.</em> 55(1): 1-82.
page(s): 46 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sarà, M. (1960). Poriferi del litorale dell'isola d'lschia e loro ripartizioneper ambienti. <em>Pubblicazioni della Stazione zoologica di Napoli.</em> 31(3):421-472, pls XII-XIII.
page(s): 469 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Tanita, S.; Hoshino, T. (1989). The Demospongiae of Sagami Bay. <em>Biological Laboratory, Imperial Household: Japan.</em> i-xiii, 1-197 [in English], pls 1-19; 1-166 [in Japanese], 1 map.
page(s): 188; note: Misapplication. [details] Available for editors
[request]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): 80-81 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Ben Mustapha, K; Zarrouk, S.; Souissi, A.; El Abed, A. (2003). Diversité des Démosponges Tunisiennes. <em>Bulletin Institut national des Sciences et Technologies de la mer de Salammbô.</em> 30, 55-78.
page(s): 73 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Cruz, T. (2002). Esponjas marinas de Canarias. <em>Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias.</em> S/C Tenerife. 260 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pronzato, R.; Manconi, R. (2008). Mediterranean commercial sponges: over 5000 years of natural history and cultural heritage. <em>Marine Ecology.</em> 29 (2), 146-166., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.2008.00235.x
page(s): 156 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bibiloni, M-A; Gili,J-M. (1982). Primera aportación al conocimiento de las cuevas de la Isla de Mallorca. <em>Oecologia aquatica.</em> 6: 227-234.
page(s): 232 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Voultsiadou-Koukoura, E.; Koukouras, A. (1993). Contribution to the knowledge of Keratose sponges (Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida, Verongida: Demospongiae, Porifera) of the Aegean Sea. <em>Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin.</em> 69, 57-72.
page(s): 60 [details]
additional source Kefalas, E.; Castritsi-Catharios, I; Miliou, H. (2003). The impacts of scallop dredging on sponge assemblages in the Gulf of Kalloni (Aegean Sea, northeastern Mediterranean). <em>ICES Journal of Marine Science.</em> 60, 402-10.
page(s): 406 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Uriz, M.J. (1979). Nota sobre algunas esponjas (Demonspongia) nuevas para el litoral iberico. <em>Primer Simposio de Bentos, San Sebastian 9-11 Abril 1979.</em> 65-86.
page(s): 78-79 [details]
additional source Vacelet, J. (1991). Statut des éponges commerciales en Méditerranée. pp. 35-42 <i>in</i>: Les espèces marines à protéger en Méditerranée. Boudouresque, C.-F., Avon, M., & Graves, V. (eds) Gis Posidonie publication, France.
page(s): 35 [details] Available for editors
[request]biology source Vacelet, J.; Vacelet, E.; Gaino, E.; Gallissian, M.-F. (1994). Bacterial attack of spongin skeleton during the 1986-1990 Mediterranean sponge disease. <i>in</i>: Sponges in Time and Space, van Soest, van Kempen & Braekman (eds) Balkema. Rotterdam. pp 355-362.
page(s): 356-358 [details] Available for editors
[request]biology source Zarrouk, S.; Ereskovsky, A.V.; Ben Mustapha, K.; Abed, A.E.; Pérez, T. (2013). Sexual reproduction of <i>Hippospongia communis</i> (Lamarck, 1814) (Dictyoceratida, Demospongiae): comparison of two populations living under contrasting environmental conditions. <em>Marine Ecology.</em> 34(4): 432-442., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/maec.12043
note: life cycle [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Lectotype (of Spongia communis Lamarck, 1814) NNM RMNH Por. 475 [details]
Unknown type (of Spongia communis Lamarck, 1814) MNHN, verbatimGeounit It is generally assu... [details]
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Biology 1986-1990 Mediterranean sponge disease: Bacterial attack of spongin fibers [details]Taxonomy Although Lamarck (1814: 370) clearly states that his specimens (in three varieties) came from the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, subsequent authors (e.g. Topsent, 1931) very much doubted this origin. It is now generally assumed, despite the label with the lectotype ('Mer Rouge'), that Spongia communis was from the Mediterranean. No Hippospongia species have subsequently been reported from the Red Sea. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian | sfungjeri me zgavra | [details] |
| English | horse sponge | [details] |
| German | Pferdeschwamm | [details] |
| Italian | spugna equina | [details] |
| Japanese | ナミウマカイメン [from synonym] | [details] |
| Modern Greek (1453-) | Καπάδικο | [details] |
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications) (from synonym Spongia equina Schmidt, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (39 publications) (from synonym Spongia communis Lamarck, 1814)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (78 publications) (from synonym Hippospongia equina (Schmidt, 1862))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hippospongia communis)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Spongia communis Lamarck, 1814)
To PESI (from synonym Spongia communis Lamarck, 1814)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (1 record) (from synonym Euspongia equina (Schmidt, 1862))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (1 record) (from synonym Euspongia equina (Schmidt, 1862))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (10 records) (from synonym Hippospongia equina (Schmidt, 1862))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (13 records) (from synonym Spongia equina Schmidt, 1862)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (2 records) (from synonym Spongia equina Schmidt, 1862)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (2 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (39 records) (from synonym Hippospongia equina (Schmidt, 1862))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (4 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (51 records) (from synonym Hippospongia equina (Schmidt, 1862))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (6 records) (from synonym Hippospongia equina (Schmidt, 1862))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (Holotype USNM 23093)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 000300.PR)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (39 publications) (from synonym Spongia communis Lamarck, 1814)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (78 publications) (from synonym Hippospongia equina (Schmidt, 1862))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hippospongia communis)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Spongia communis Lamarck, 1814)
To PESI (from synonym Spongia communis Lamarck, 1814)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (1 record) (from synonym Euspongia equina (Schmidt, 1862))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (1 record) (from synonym Euspongia equina (Schmidt, 1862))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (10 records) (from synonym Hippospongia equina (Schmidt, 1862))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (13 records) (from synonym Spongia equina Schmidt, 1862)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (2 records) (from synonym Spongia equina Schmidt, 1862)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (2 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (39 records) (from synonym Hippospongia equina (Schmidt, 1862))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (4 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (51 records) (from synonym Hippospongia equina (Schmidt, 1862))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (6 records) (from synonym Hippospongia equina (Schmidt, 1862))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (Holotype USNM 23093)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 000300.PR)
