WoRMS taxon details
Guitarra fimbriata Carter, 1874
133226 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:133226)
accepted
Species
- Variety Guitarra fimbriata var. indica Dendy, 1916 accepted as Guitarra flamenca Carballo & Uriz, 1998 (status change)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Carter, H.J. (1874). Descriptions and Figures of Deep-sea Sponges and their Spicules from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S.‘Porcupine', chiefly in 1869; with Figures and Descriptions of some remarkable Spicules from the Agulhas Shoal and Colon, Panama. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (4) 14 (79): 207-221, 245-257, pls.XIII-XV., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222937408680964
page(s): 210-212 [details]
page(s): 210-212 [details]
Type locality contained in Celtic Seas
type locality contained in 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.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2026). World Porifera Database. Guitarra fimbriata Carter, 1874. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=133226 on 2026-04-17
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Carter, H.J. (1874). Descriptions and Figures of Deep-sea Sponges and their Spicules from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S.‘Porcupine', chiefly in 1869; with Figures and Descriptions of some remarkable Spicules from the Agulhas Shoal and Colon, Panama. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (4) 14 (79): 207-221, 245-257, pls.XIII-XV., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222937408680964
page(s): 210-212 [details]
basis of record Boury-Esnault, N.; Pansini, M.; Uriz, M.J. (1993). Cosmopolitism in sponges: The ‘complex' <i>Guitarra fimbriata</i> with description of a new species of <i>Guitarra</i> from the northeast Atlantic. <i>In</i>: Uriz, M.-J. & Rützler, K. (Eds), Recent Advances in Ecology and Systematics of Sponges. <em>Scientia Marina.</em> 57(4): 367-373. [details]
page(s): 210-212 [details]
basis of record Boury-Esnault, N.; Pansini, M.; Uriz, M.J. (1993). Cosmopolitism in sponges: The ‘complex' <i>Guitarra fimbriata</i> with description of a new species of <i>Guitarra</i> from the northeast Atlantic. <i>In</i>: Uriz, M.-J. & Rützler, K. (Eds), Recent Advances in Ecology and Systematics of Sponges. <em>Scientia Marina.</em> 57(4): 367-373. [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Burton, M. (1932). Sponges. <em>Discovery Reports.</em> 6: 237-392, pls 48-57.
page(s): 287; note: misapplication [details] Available for editors
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additional source Burton, M. (1934). Sponges. Pp. 1-58, pls I-VIII. <em>In: Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901-03 under the Direction of Dr. Otto Nordenskjöld.</em> 3 (2). (Norstedt & Söner: Stockholm).
page(s): 21; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Burton, M. (1940). Las Esponjas marinas del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales. (Parte 1). <em>Anales del Museo argentino de ciencias naturales ‘Bernardino Rivadavia'.</em> 40 (6): 95-121, pls I-VIII.
page(s): 103; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source Burton, M. (1959). Sponges. <em>In: Scientific Reports. John Murray Expedition 1933-34. 10(5). British Museum (Natural History): London.</em> Pp. 151-281., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49512735
page(s): 231; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source Cabioch, L. (1968). Contribution à la connaissance de la faune des Spongiaires de la Manche occidentale. Démosponges de la région de Roscoff. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 9(2): 211-246.
page(s): 231 [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 Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS)
note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Descatoire, A. (1966). Sur quelques Démosponges de l'Archipel de Glénan. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 7 (3): 231-246, pl. 1. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 242-244 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bergquist, P.R.; Fromont, P.J. (1988). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 4 Poecilosclerida. <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir.</em> 96: 1-197.
page(s): 40-41; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source Borojevic, R.; Cabioch, L.; Lévi, C. (1968). Inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Spongiaires. <em>Éditions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.</em> pp. 1-44., available online at http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/images/stories/sbr/observation/documents/spongiaires.pdf
page(s): 19 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Descatoire, A. (1969). Peuplements sessiles de l'Archipel de Glénan de l'infralittoral rocheux. I. - Inventaire: Spongiaires. <em>Vie et Milieu (B, Océanographie).</em> 20 (1B): 177-209.
page(s): 198 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Koltun, V.M. (1964). Sponges of the Antarctic. 1 Tetraxonida and Cornacuspongida. Pp. 6-133, 443-448. <em>In: Pavlovskii, E.P., Andriyashev,A.P. & Ushakov, P.V. (Eds), Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958).</em> Akademya Nauk SSSR [English translation,1966, Israel Program for Scientific Translation].
page(s): 45; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Koltun, V.M. (1970). Sponge fauna of the northwestern Pacific from the shallows to the hadal depths. Pp. 165-221. <em>In: Bogorov, V.G. (Ed.), Fauna of the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench and its environment. Institute of Oceanology of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., 86. (Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Trudy Instituta Okeanologii in P.P. Shishov and Izdatelstvo Nauka, Moskwa).</em> 1-372, pls 1-8.
page(s): 195; note: misapplication [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Schmidt, O. (1880). Die Spongien des Meerbusen von Mexico (Und des caraibischen Meeres). Heft II. Abtheilung II. Hexactinelliden. Abtheilung III. Tetractinelliden. Monactinelliden und Anhang. Nachträge zu Abtheilung I (Lithistiden). Pp. 33-90, pls V-X. <i>In</i>: Reports on the dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, by the USCSS ‘Blake'. (Gustav Fischer:Jena).
page(s): 84; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source Kelly, M.; Edwards, A.R.; Wilkinson, M.R.; Alvarez, B.; Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R.; Buckeridge, St J.; Campbell, H.J.; Reiswig, H.M.; Valentine, C.; Vacelet, J. (2009). Phylum Porifera: sponges. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 23-46.
note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Rützler, K.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Piantoni, C. (2009). Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico. <i>in</i>: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A & M Press, College Station, Texas. 285–313. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Burton, M. (1932). Sponges. <em>Discovery Reports.</em> 6: 237-392, pls 48-57.
page(s): 287; note: misapplication [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Burton, M. (1934). Sponges. Pp. 1-58, pls I-VIII. <em>In: Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901-03 under the Direction of Dr. Otto Nordenskjöld.</em> 3 (2). (Norstedt & Söner: Stockholm).
page(s): 21; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Burton, M. (1940). Las Esponjas marinas del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales. (Parte 1). <em>Anales del Museo argentino de ciencias naturales ‘Bernardino Rivadavia'.</em> 40 (6): 95-121, pls I-VIII.
page(s): 103; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source Burton, M. (1959). Sponges. <em>In: Scientific Reports. John Murray Expedition 1933-34. 10(5). British Museum (Natural History): London.</em> Pp. 151-281., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49512735
page(s): 231; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source Cabioch, L. (1968). Contribution à la connaissance de la faune des Spongiaires de la Manche occidentale. Démosponges de la région de Roscoff. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 9(2): 211-246.
page(s): 231 [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 Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS)
note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Descatoire, A. (1966). Sur quelques Démosponges de l'Archipel de Glénan. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 7 (3): 231-246, pl. 1. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 242-244 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bergquist, P.R.; Fromont, P.J. (1988). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 4 Poecilosclerida. <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir.</em> 96: 1-197.
page(s): 40-41; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source Borojevic, R.; Cabioch, L.; Lévi, C. (1968). Inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Spongiaires. <em>Éditions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.</em> pp. 1-44., available online at http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/images/stories/sbr/observation/documents/spongiaires.pdf
page(s): 19 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Descatoire, A. (1969). Peuplements sessiles de l'Archipel de Glénan de l'infralittoral rocheux. I. - Inventaire: Spongiaires. <em>Vie et Milieu (B, Océanographie).</em> 20 (1B): 177-209.
page(s): 198 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Koltun, V.M. (1964). Sponges of the Antarctic. 1 Tetraxonida and Cornacuspongida. Pp. 6-133, 443-448. <em>In: Pavlovskii, E.P., Andriyashev,A.P. & Ushakov, P.V. (Eds), Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958).</em> Akademya Nauk SSSR [English translation,1966, Israel Program for Scientific Translation].
page(s): 45; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Koltun, V.M. (1970). Sponge fauna of the northwestern Pacific from the shallows to the hadal depths. Pp. 165-221. <em>In: Bogorov, V.G. (Ed.), Fauna of the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench and its environment. Institute of Oceanology of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., 86. (Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Trudy Instituta Okeanologii in P.P. Shishov and Izdatelstvo Nauka, Moskwa).</em> 1-372, pls 1-8.
page(s): 195; note: misapplication [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Schmidt, O. (1880). Die Spongien des Meerbusen von Mexico (Und des caraibischen Meeres). Heft II. Abtheilung II. Hexactinelliden. Abtheilung III. Tetractinelliden. Monactinelliden und Anhang. Nachträge zu Abtheilung I (Lithistiden). Pp. 33-90, pls V-X. <i>In</i>: Reports on the dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, by the USCSS ‘Blake'. (Gustav Fischer:Jena).
page(s): 84; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source Kelly, M.; Edwards, A.R.; Wilkinson, M.R.; Alvarez, B.; Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R.; Buckeridge, St J.; Campbell, H.J.; Reiswig, H.M.; Valentine, C.; Vacelet, J. (2009). Phylum Porifera: sponges. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 23-46.
note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Rützler, K.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Piantoni, C. (2009). Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico. <i>in</i>: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A & M Press, College Station, Texas. 285–313. [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Holotype BMNH 1954.3.9.319 [details]
