Porifera taxon details
Oceanapia robusta (Bowerbank, 1866)
132946 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132946)
accepted
Species
Biemna jeffreysii (Bowerbank, 1866) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Desmacidon jeffreysii Bowerbank, 1866 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Esperia jeffreysii (Bowerbank, 1866) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Gelliodes cavicornis Topsent, 1892 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Gellius robustus (Bowerbank, 1866) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Isodictya robusta Bowerbank, 1866 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Oceanapia jeffreysii (Bowerbank, 1866) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Reniera tubulosa Hansen, 1885 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Isodictya robusta Bowerbank, 1866) Bowerbank, J.S. (1866). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1905089
page(s): 304-305 [details]
page(s): 304-305 [details]
Type locality contained in North Sea
type locality contained in North Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [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. Oceanapia robusta (Bowerbank, 1866). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=132946 on 2025-05-15
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original description
(of Isodictya robusta Bowerbank, 1866) Bowerbank, J.S. (1866). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1905089
page(s): 304-305 [details]
original description (of Desmacidon jeffreysii Bowerbank, 1866) Bowerbank, J.S. (1866). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1905089
page(s): 347-349 [details]
original description (of Gelliodes cavicornis Topsent, 1892) Topsent, E. (1892). Contribution à l'étude des Spongiaires de l'Atlantique Nord (Golfe de Gascogne, Terre-Neuve, Açores). <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 2: 1-165, pls I-XI. [details]
original description (of Reniera tubulosa Hansen, 1885) Hansen, G.A. (1885). Spongiadae. The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition 1876-1878. <em>Zoology.</em> 13: 1-26, pls I-VII, 1 map. [details]
original description (of Esperia jeffreysii (Bowerbank, 1866)) Bowerbank, J.S. (1866). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1905089 [details]
basis of record de Weerdt, W.H. (1985). A systematic revision of the north-eastern Atlantic shallow-water Haplosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae): 1. Introduction, Oceanapiidae and Petrosiidae. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 35(5): 61-91. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 75-80 [details]
basis of record Lundbeck, W. (1902). Porifera. (Part I.) Homorrhaphidae and Heterorrhaphidae. <em>In: The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. 6(1). (Bianco Luno: Copenhagen).</em> Pp. 1-108, pls I-XIX, 1 map.
page(s): 78-82 [details]
additional source Ridley, S.O.; Dendy, A. (1887). Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873-76. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 20 (part 59): i-lxviii, 1-275, pl. 1-51, 1 map., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-59/README.htm
page(s): 36-37 [details]
additional source Stephens, J. (1921 [1920]). Sponges of the Coasts of Ireland. II. The Tetraxonida (concluded). <em>Scientific Investigations of the Fisheries Branch. Department of Agriculture for Ireland.</em> 1920 (2): 1-75, pls I-VI.
page(s): 6 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1904). Spongiaires des Açores. <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 25: 1-280, pls 1-18., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40603003
page(s): 228-229 [details]
additional source Stephens, J. (1917). Report on the sponges collected off the coasts of Ireland by the dredging expeditions of the Royal Irish Academy and the Royal Dublin Society. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.</em> 34 (B): 1-16.
page(s): 6 [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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]
basis of record (of Desmacidon jeffreysii Bowerbank, 1866) de Weerdt, W.H. (1985). A systematic revision of the north-eastern Atlantic shallow-water Haplosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae): 1. Introduction, Oceanapiidae and Petrosiidae. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 35(5): 61-91. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record (of Desmacidon jeffreysii Bowerbank, 1866) Bowerbank, J.S. (1874). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1871265
page(s): 157-162, Pl. LXVII [details]
basis of record (of Isodictya robusta Bowerbank, 1866) 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]
basis of record (of Gelliodes cavicornis Topsent, 1892) de Weerdt, W.H. (1985). A systematic revision of the north-eastern Atlantic shallow-water Haplosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae): 1. Introduction, Oceanapiidae and Petrosiidae. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 35(5): 61-91. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source (of Desmacidon jeffreysii Bowerbank, 1866) Carter, H.J. (1880). Report on Specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar and presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt.W.H. Cawne Warren. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (5) 6(31):35-61, pls IV-VI; 129-156, pls VII, VIII.
page(s): 37; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source (of Desmacidon jeffreysii Bowerbank, 1866) Fristedt, K. (1887). Sponges from the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and the Behring Sea. <em>Vega-Expeditionens Vetenskap. Iakttagelser (Nordenskiöld) 4.</em> 401-471, pls 22-31.
page(s): 442 [details]
additional source (of Reniera tubulosa Hansen, 1885) Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Butler, P.J. (2020). Every sponge its own name: removing Porifera homonyms. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4745(1): 1-93., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4745.1.1
page(s): 61 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source (of Isodictya robusta Bowerbank, 1866) de Weerdt, W.H. (1985). A systematic revision of the north-eastern Atlantic shallow-water Haplosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae): 1. Introduction, Oceanapiidae and Petrosiidae. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 35(5): 61-91. (look up in IMIS) [details]
new combination reference (of Gellius robustus (Bowerbank, 1866)) Gray, J.E. (1867). Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details]
new combination reference (of Biemna jeffreysii (Bowerbank, 1866)) Gray, J.E. (1867). Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details]
new combination reference (of Oceanapia jeffreysii (Bowerbank, 1866)) Norman, A.M. (1869). Last report on dredging among the Shetland Isles. Part 2. On the Crustacea, Tunicata, Polyzoa, Echinodermata, Actinozoa, Hydrozoa, and Porifera. <em>In: Report of the thirty-eighth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; held in Norwich in August 1868. London 1869.</em> pp. 247–336, (Amphipoda, pp. 273–288) (Porifera, pp. 327-335)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29387922 [details]
new combination reference (of Esperia jeffreysii (Bowerbank, 1866)) Schmidt, O. (1870). Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI. [details]
page(s): 304-305 [details]
original description (of Desmacidon jeffreysii Bowerbank, 1866) Bowerbank, J.S. (1866). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1905089
page(s): 347-349 [details]
original description (of Gelliodes cavicornis Topsent, 1892) Topsent, E. (1892). Contribution à l'étude des Spongiaires de l'Atlantique Nord (Golfe de Gascogne, Terre-Neuve, Açores). <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 2: 1-165, pls I-XI. [details]
original description (of Reniera tubulosa Hansen, 1885) Hansen, G.A. (1885). Spongiadae. The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition 1876-1878. <em>Zoology.</em> 13: 1-26, pls I-VII, 1 map. [details]
original description (of Esperia jeffreysii (Bowerbank, 1866)) Bowerbank, J.S. (1866). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1905089 [details]
basis of record de Weerdt, W.H. (1985). A systematic revision of the north-eastern Atlantic shallow-water Haplosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae): 1. Introduction, Oceanapiidae and Petrosiidae. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 35(5): 61-91. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 75-80 [details]
basis of record Lundbeck, W. (1902). Porifera. (Part I.) Homorrhaphidae and Heterorrhaphidae. <em>In: The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. 6(1). (Bianco Luno: Copenhagen).</em> Pp. 1-108, pls I-XIX, 1 map.
page(s): 78-82 [details]
additional source Ridley, S.O.; Dendy, A. (1887). Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873-76. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 20 (part 59): i-lxviii, 1-275, pl. 1-51, 1 map., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-59/README.htm
page(s): 36-37 [details]
additional source Stephens, J. (1921 [1920]). Sponges of the Coasts of Ireland. II. The Tetraxonida (concluded). <em>Scientific Investigations of the Fisheries Branch. Department of Agriculture for Ireland.</em> 1920 (2): 1-75, pls I-VI.
page(s): 6 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1904). Spongiaires des Açores. <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 25: 1-280, pls 1-18., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40603003
page(s): 228-229 [details]
additional source Stephens, J. (1917). Report on the sponges collected off the coasts of Ireland by the dredging expeditions of the Royal Irish Academy and the Royal Dublin Society. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.</em> 34 (B): 1-16.
page(s): 6 [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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]
basis of record (of Desmacidon jeffreysii Bowerbank, 1866) de Weerdt, W.H. (1985). A systematic revision of the north-eastern Atlantic shallow-water Haplosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae): 1. Introduction, Oceanapiidae and Petrosiidae. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 35(5): 61-91. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record (of Desmacidon jeffreysii Bowerbank, 1866) Bowerbank, J.S. (1874). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1871265
page(s): 157-162, Pl. LXVII [details]
basis of record (of Isodictya robusta Bowerbank, 1866) 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]
basis of record (of Gelliodes cavicornis Topsent, 1892) de Weerdt, W.H. (1985). A systematic revision of the north-eastern Atlantic shallow-water Haplosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae): 1. Introduction, Oceanapiidae and Petrosiidae. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 35(5): 61-91. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source (of Desmacidon jeffreysii Bowerbank, 1866) Carter, H.J. (1880). Report on Specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar and presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt.W.H. Cawne Warren. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (5) 6(31):35-61, pls IV-VI; 129-156, pls VII, VIII.
page(s): 37; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source (of Desmacidon jeffreysii Bowerbank, 1866) Fristedt, K. (1887). Sponges from the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and the Behring Sea. <em>Vega-Expeditionens Vetenskap. Iakttagelser (Nordenskiöld) 4.</em> 401-471, pls 22-31.
page(s): 442 [details]
additional source (of Reniera tubulosa Hansen, 1885) Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Butler, P.J. (2020). Every sponge its own name: removing Porifera homonyms. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4745(1): 1-93., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4745.1.1
page(s): 61 [details] Available for editors

additional source (of Isodictya robusta Bowerbank, 1866) de Weerdt, W.H. (1985). A systematic revision of the north-eastern Atlantic shallow-water Haplosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae): 1. Introduction, Oceanapiidae and Petrosiidae. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 35(5): 61-91. (look up in IMIS) [details]
new combination reference (of Gellius robustus (Bowerbank, 1866)) Gray, J.E. (1867). Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details]
new combination reference (of Biemna jeffreysii (Bowerbank, 1866)) Gray, J.E. (1867). Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details]
new combination reference (of Oceanapia jeffreysii (Bowerbank, 1866)) Norman, A.M. (1869). Last report on dredging among the Shetland Isles. Part 2. On the Crustacea, Tunicata, Polyzoa, Echinodermata, Actinozoa, Hydrozoa, and Porifera. <em>In: Report of the thirty-eighth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; held in Norwich in August 1868. London 1869.</em> pp. 247–336, (Amphipoda, pp. 273–288) (Porifera, pp. 327-335)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29387922 [details]
new combination reference (of Esperia jeffreysii (Bowerbank, 1866)) Schmidt, O. (1870). Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI. [details]




Unknown type (of Gelliodes cavicornis Topsent, 1892) MNHN DT 1061, geounit Azores Canaries Madeira [details]
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Gellius robustus (Bowerbank, 1866))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Biemna jeffreysii (Bowerbank, 1866))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Isodictya robusta Bowerbank, 1866)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Gelliodes cavicornis Topsent, 1892)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Desmacidon jeffreysii Bowerbank, 1866)
To PESI (from synonym Gelliodes cavicornis Topsent, 1892)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Isodictya robusta Bowerbank, 1866)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (1 record) (from synonym Desmacidon jeffreysii Bowerbank, 1866)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (1 record) (from synonym Oceanapia jeffreysii (Bowerbank, 1866))
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 000466.PR)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Gellius robustus (Bowerbank, 1866))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Biemna jeffreysii (Bowerbank, 1866))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Isodictya robusta Bowerbank, 1866)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Gelliodes cavicornis Topsent, 1892)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Desmacidon jeffreysii Bowerbank, 1866)
To PESI (from synonym Gelliodes cavicornis Topsent, 1892)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Isodictya robusta Bowerbank, 1866)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (1 record) (from synonym Desmacidon jeffreysii Bowerbank, 1866)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (1 record) (from synonym Oceanapia jeffreysii (Bowerbank, 1866))
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 000466.PR)