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Porifera taxon details

Isodictya palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786)

Esper's Spongia lobata

AphiaID

133247 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:133247)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Typetaxon of

Homoeodictya Ehlers, 1870

Parent

Isodictya Bowerbank, 1864

Original name

Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786

Synonymised names

Amphimedon excelsa (Schmidt, 1870) · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)

Desmacidon (Homoeodictya) palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Desmacidon palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Halichondria palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) · alternative representation (genus transfer)

Haliclona excelsa (Schmidt, 1870) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Haliclona palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Homoeodictya palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Isodictya anomala Bowerbank, 1866 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Isodictya incerta Bowerbank, 1874 · unaccepted

Pachychalina caulifera Vosmaer, 1882 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)

Pachychalina caulifera f. murmanica Breitfuss, 1912 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)

Pachychalina compressa Schmidt, 1870 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Pachychalina excelsa Schmidt, 1870 · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Platychalina palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Spongia digitata Esper, 1797 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Spongia lobata Esper, 1794 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786 · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786) Ellis, J.; Solander, D. (1786). The Natural History of many curious and uncommon Zoophytes, collected from various parts of the Globe. Systematically arranged and described by the late Daniel Solander. 4.(Benjamin White & Son: London): 1-206, pls 1-63., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41943909
page(s): 189 [details]

Type data

Holotype (of Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786)...

Holotype (of Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786) BMNH 1847.9.7.1, geounit North Sea [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomy The species has been attributed to Johnston (1842), but according to Hajdu et al. (1994) the species was earlier named by...

Taxonomy The species has been attributed to Johnston (1842), but according to Hajdu et al. (1994) the species was earlier named by Ellis & Solander, 1786. [details]

Taxonomic citation

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. (2024). World Porifera Database. Isodictya palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=133247 on 2025-04-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2006-12-29 20:23:15Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2007-07-05 12:35:40Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

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original description (of Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786) Ellis, J.; Solander, D. (1786). The Natural History of many curious and uncommon Zoophytes, collected from various parts of the Globe. Systematically arranged and described by the late Daniel Solander. 4.(Benjamin White & Son: London): 1-206, pls 1-63., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41943909
page(s): 189 [details]

original description (of Pachychalina excelsa Schmidt, 1870) Schmidt, O. (1870). Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI. [details]

original description (of Pachychalina compressa Schmidt, 1870) Schmidt, O. (1870). Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI. [details]

original description (of Pachychalina caulifera Vosmaer, 1882) Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1882). Report on the sponges dredged up in the Arctic Sea by the ‘Willem Barents' in the years 1878 and 1879. Niederländisches Archiv für Zoologie Supplement. 1(3): 1-58, pls I-IV. [details]

original description (of Spongia lobata Esper, 1794) Esper, E.J.C. (1794). Die Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet, nebst Beschreibungen. Zweyter Theil. (Raspe: Nürnberg): 1-303. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50841660
page(s): 273-274, pl XLVI [details]

original description (of Spongia digitata Esper, 1797) Esper, E.J.C. (1797). Fortsetzungen der Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungennach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet nebst Beschreibungen. Erster Theil.(Nürnberg): 1-230, pls XXXII-LXI., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.118730 [details]

original description (of Spongia digitata Esper, 1797) Esper, E.J.C. (1794). Die Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet, nebst Beschreibungen. Zweyter Theil. (Raspe: Nürnberg): 1-303. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50841660 [details]

original description (of Pachychalina caulifera f. murmanica Breitfuss, 1912) Breitfuss, L.L. (1912). Zur Kenntniss der Spongio-Fauna des Kola Fjords. II. Travaux de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de St. Petersbourg, Section Zoologie. 42 : 59-80.
page(s): 76 [details]

original description (of Isodictya anomala 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): 293-294 [details]

original description (of Isodictya incerta Bowerbank, 1874) 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): 311, Pl. LXXXIX 3-4; 314-315; note: illustration of the type specimen [details]

basis of record 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): 311-313 [details]

additional source 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): 133, Pl LII [details]

additional source Hartman, W.D. (1958). Natural History of the Marine Sponges of Southern New England. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 12: 1-155.
page(s): 46-50, fig. 13 [details]

additional source Hentschel, E. (1929). Die Kiesel- und Hornschwämme des Nördlichen Eismeers. Pp. 857-1042, pls XII-XIV. In: Römer, F., Schaudinn, F., Brauer, A. & Arndt, W. (Eds), Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898. 5 (4) (G.Fischer, Jena). [details] Available for editors

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additional source Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors

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additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Meinkoth, N. A. (1981). Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. 1-799. [details]

basis of record (of Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786) Hajdu, E.; de Weerdt, W.H.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1994). Affinities of the 'Mermaid's Glove' sponge Isodictya palmata, with a discussion on the synapomorphic value of chelae microscleres. pp 141-150. In: Van Soest, R.W.M., van Kempen T.M.G., Braekman J.C. (eds) Sponges in Time and Space. Biology, Chemistry, Paleontology. Balkema, Rotterdam. [details] Available for editors

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basis of record (of Spongia lobata Esper, 1794) Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Butler, P.J. (2020). Every sponge its own name: removing Porifera homonyms. Zootaxa. 4745(1): 1-93., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4745.1.1
page(s): 39 [details] Available for editors

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basis of record (of Pachychalina caulifera Vosmaer, 1882) Lundbeck, W. (1902). Porifera. (Part I.) Homorrhaphidae and Heterorrhaphidae. In: The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. 6(1). (Bianco Luno: Copenhagen). Pp. 1-108, pls I-XIX, 1 map.
page(s): 7-9 [details]

basis of record (of Homoeodictya palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786)) Hansen, G.A. (1885). Spongiadae. The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition 1876-1878. Zoology. 13: 1-26, pls I-VII, 1 map.
page(s): 121-125 [details]

basis of record (of Homoeodictya palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786)) Lundbeck, W. (1905). Porifera. (Part II.) Desmacidonidae. The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. 6(2):1-219.
page(s): 121-125 [details]

additional source (of Homoeodictya palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786)) Swartschewsky, B. (1906). Materialui dlya faunui ghubok Belago Morya i otchasti Murmanskogo poberjya (Monaxonida). (Beiträge zur Spongien-Fauna des Weissen Meeres). Zapiski Kïevskago obshchestva estestvoispÿtatelei. Mémoires de la Société des Naturalistes de Kiew. 20(2): 307-355 [in Russian]; German summary 356-371, pls 10-16.
page(s): 347 [details]

additional source (of Homoeodictya palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786)) Hentschel, E. (1929). Die Kiesel- und Hornschwämme des Nördlichen Eismeers. Pp. 857-1042, pls XII-XIV. In: Römer, F., Schaudinn, F., Brauer, A. & Arndt, W. (Eds), Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898. 5 (4) (G.Fischer, Jena). [details] Available for editors

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additional source (of Isodictya anomala Bowerbank, 1866) Bowerbank, J.S. (1874). Contributions to a General History of the Spongiadae. Part VI. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1874: 298-305, pls XLVI-XLVII.
page(s): 127, Pl. L 1-4; note: illustration of the type-specimen [details]

additional source (of Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source (of Pachychalina caulifera Vosmaer, 1882) Hentschel, E. (1916). 3- Die Spongien des Eisfjords In: Zoologische Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Expedition nach Spitzbergen, 1908. Teil II. Kungliga Svenska vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar. 54 (3): 1-18.
page(s): 14 [details]

additional source (of Pachychalina caulifera Vosmaer, 1882) Hentschel, E. (1929). Die Kiesel- und Hornschwämme des Nördlichen Eismeers. Pp. 857-1042, pls XII-XIV. In: Römer, F., Schaudinn, F., Brauer, A. & Arndt, W. (Eds), Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898. 5 (4) (G.Fischer, Jena).
page(s): 901 [details] Available for editors

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additional source (of Pachychalina caulifera Vosmaer, 1882) Levinsen, G.M.R. (1887). Kara-Havets Svampe (Porifera). Dijmphna-Togtets zoologisk-botaniske Udbytte. 1: 339-372, pls XXIX-XXXI.
page(s): 350-351 [details]

additional source (of Halichondria palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786)) Lieberkühn, N. (1859). Neue Beiträge zur Anatomie der Spongien. Archiv für Anatomie und Physiologie. 30(3): 353-382, 515-529, pls IX-XI.
page(s): Fig. 12; note: Misapplication: This concerns a Haliclona species, which is incertae sedis and provisionally is named Haliclona palmata sensu Lieberkühn, q.v. [details]

additional source (of Pachychalina caulifera f. murmanica Breitfuss, 1912) Hentschel, E. (1929). Die Kiesel- und Hornschwämme des Nördlichen Eismeers. Pp. 857-1042, pls XII-XIV. In: Römer, F., Schaudinn, F., Brauer, A. & Arndt, W. (Eds), Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898. 5 (4) (G.Fischer, Jena). [details] Available for editors

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additional source (of Spongia digitata Esper, 1797) Montagu, G. (1814 [1818]). An Essay on Sponges, with Descriptions of all the Species that have been discovered on the Coast of Great Britain. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society. 2(1): 67-122, pls III-XVI., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45847761
page(s): 84 [details]

additional source (of Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786) Hajdu, E.; Lôbo-Hajdu, G. (2002 [2004]). Family Isodictyidae Dendy, 1924. pp. 703-706. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) (2002 [2004]). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges (2 Volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors

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additional source (of Haliclona palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786)) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source (of Pachychalina compressa Schmidt, 1870) Levinsen, G.M.R. (1887). Kara-Havets Svampe (Porifera). Dijmphna-Togtets zoologisk-botaniske Udbytte. 1: 339-372, pls XXIX-XXXI.
page(s): 351 [details]

additional source (of Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786) Montagu, G. (1814 [1818]). An Essay on Sponges, with Descriptions of all the Species that have been discovered on the Coast of Great Britain. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society. 2(1): 67-122, pls III-XVI., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45847761
page(s): 80 [details]

additional source (of Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786) Topsent, E. (1933). Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Fin. Archives du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris. 10: 1-60.
page(s): 3 [details] Available for editors

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additional source (of Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786) Hajdu, E.; Lôbo-Hajdu, G. (2002). Family Isodictyidae Dendy, 1924. pp. 703-706. In Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) (2002). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges (2 Volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details]

additional source (of Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1814 [1813]). Sur les polypiers empâtés. Annales du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle. 20: 294-312; 370-386; 432-458.
page(s): 3; note: Not the var. β = Callyspongia euplax [details]

new combination reference (of Homoeodictya palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786)) Ehlers, E. (1870). Die Esper'schen Spongien in der zoologischen Sammlung der K. Universität Erlangen. (E.Th. Jacob: Erlangen): 1-36. [details]

new combination reference (of Halichondria palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786)) Johnston, G. (1842). A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes. (W.H. Lizars: Edinburgh). i-xii, 1-264, pls I-XXV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35290582 [details]

new combination reference (of Desmacidon (Homoeodictya) palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786)) Lambe, L.M. (1896). Sponges from the Atlantic coast of Canada. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. 2 (2): 181-211, pls. I-III. [details]

new combination reference (of Desmacidon palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786)) Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1880). The Sponges of the Leyden Museum. 1. The family of the Desmacidinae. Notes from the Leyden Museum. 2: 99-164.
page(s): 133 [details]

new combination reference (of Haliclona excelsa (Schmidt, 1870)) Arndt, W. (1935). Porifera. In: Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee. Leipzig. 3a(27): 1-140. [details] Available for editors

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new combination reference (of Platychalina palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786)) Burton, M. (1959). Spongia. Pp. 1-71. In: Fridriksson, A. & Tuxen, S.L.(Eds), The Zoology of Iceland. 2(3-4). Ejnar Munksgaard: Copenhagen& Reykjavik.
page(s): 22 [details] Available for editors

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Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Holotype (of Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786) BMNH 1847.9.7.1, geounit North Sea [details]

From editor or global species database

Authority was given as Johnston, in most works prior to 1994. [details]

Taxonomy The species has been attributed to Johnston (1842), but according to Hajdu et al. (1994) the species was earlier named by Ellis & Solander, 1786. [details]

Unreviewed

Dimensions branching to finger-like lobes to 60 cm long [details]

Definitions