WoRMS taxon details
Timea acutostellata (Hanitsch, 1894)
134319 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134319)
accepted
Species
Hymedesmia acutostellata Hanitsch, 1894 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Hymedesmia acutostellata Hanitsch, 1894) Hanitsch, R. (1894). Revision of the Generic Nomenclature and Classification in Bowerbank's ‘British Spongiadae'. <em>Proceedings and Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society.</em> 8: 173-195.
page(s): 203 [details]
page(s): 203 [details]
Type locality contained in Celtic Seas
type locality contained in Celtic Seas [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. Timea acutostellata (Hanitsch, 1894). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=134319 on 2025-11-08
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Hymedesmia acutostellata Hanitsch, 1894) Hanitsch, R. (1894). Revision of the Generic Nomenclature and Classification in Bowerbank's ‘British Spongiadae'. <em>Proceedings and Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society.</em> 8: 173-195.
page(s): 203 [details]
page(s): 203 [details]
Other
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 Topsent, E. (1900). Étude monographique des Spongiaires de France. III.Monaxonida (Hadromerina). <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> (3) 8: 1-331, pls I-VIII.
page(s): 114 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1900). Étude monographique des Spongiaires de France. III.Monaxonida (Hadromerina). <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> (3) 8: 1-331, pls I-VIII.
page(s): 114 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Validity Hanitsch (1894: 203), discussing Bowerbank's Hymedesmia stellata (= Timea stellata) reported the occurrence in Liverpool Bay of an encrusting sponge 'very similar to H. stellata but possessing oxyasters instead of chiasters' for which he proposed the 'provisional' name H. acuto-stellata. He gave no further descriptive information, other than that 'its mode of growth reminds one strongly of Axinella stuposa' (presumably he meant what is currently known as Stelligera stuposa). Topsent (1900: 114) stated that he corresponded with Hanitsch and that they together arrived at the conclusion that Hanitsch specimen likely concerned an encrsting specimens of Stelligera, either stuposus or rigida. This information is not sufficient to distinguish Hanitsch' material from other Northeast Atlantic or nearby Mediterranean Timea species because many additional thin crusts with tylostyles and oxyasters were detected subsequently. The species is more likely conspecific with T. unistellata (Topsent, 1892), but it remains uncertain. [details]
