WoRMS taxon details
Haliclona villosa (Lendenfeld, 1887)
1424382 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1424382)
accepted
Species
Callyspongia villosa (Lendenfeld, 1887) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Dactylochalina villosa Lendenfeld, 1887 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Dactylochalina villosa Lendenfeld, 1887) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1887). Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher, Jena.</em> 2: 723-828, pls XVIII-XXVII.
page(s): 812 [details]
page(s): 812 [details]
Type locality contained in Bassian
type locality contained in Bassian [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. (2024). World Porifera Database. Haliclona villosa (Lendenfeld, 1887). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1424382 on 2024-04-18
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original description
(of Dactylochalina villosa Lendenfeld, 1887) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1887). Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher, Jena.</em> 2: 723-828, pls XVIII-XXVII.
page(s): 812 [details]
new combination reference 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
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page(s): 812 [details]
new combination reference 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
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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New combination We cite here Van Soest et al.'s (2020: 64-65) explanation for the new combination.Removal of homonymy between Callyspongia (Cladochalina) villosa (Pallas, 1766) and Callyspongia villosa (Von Lendenfeld, 1887).
1. Spongia villosa Pallas, 1766: 392 (type locality American and Indo-Pacific Oceans). Spongia villosa Pallas, 1766 was erected on the basis of a figure of a sponge from the beach of Jamaica in volume I of Sloane (1707: 63), which looks convincingly like the previously recognized Callyspongia (Cladochalina) vaginalis (Lamarck, 1814: 436). Lamarck indicated the same figure of Sloane (1707: 63) as the representative of his Spongia vaginalis, thus confirming inadvertently Pallas’ villosa and his vaginalis as conspecific. Pallas also indicated that Spongia aculeata Linnaeus, 1759: 1348 was included in his concept of this species, which effectively meant that his name Spongia villosa is a junior synonym of Spongia aculeata (a conclusion already drawn by Esper 1794: 193), and thus also Lamarck’s Spongia vaginalis a junior synonym. A further indication of the specific properties of Spongia villosa is the reference by Pallas to Petiver (1712), in which plate 19 fig. 9 clearly depicts a specimen of what is previously understood as Callyspongia (Cladochalina) vaginalis. The nomenclatural history of aculeata, villosa and vaginalis is complicated, but for the present case the homonymy was removed by reassigning the senior secondary homonym to the synonymy of an earlier name (ICZN Art. 60.1). Moreover, below Callyspongia villosa sensu Von Lendenfeld was reassigned to the genus Haliclona, thus invoking ICZN Art. 59.2.
2. Dactylochalina villosa Von Lendenfeld, 1887: 812 (type locality Port Phillip, Southeast Australia). Dactylochalina Von Lendenfeld, 1886: 570 was assigned to the synonymy of Callyspongia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864: 56 by Desqueyroux-Faündez & Valentine (2002: 840), following Burton (1934: 539) and Wiedenmayer (1977: 100). The type species was first indicated to be Dactylochalina australis Von Lendenfeld, 1887 by Burton (1934), but this was corrected to Dactylochalina cylindrica Von Lendenfeld, 1886: 570 by Wiedenmayer (1977: 100) because D. australis was not among the species erected in the Von Lendenfeld (1886) paper. The World Porifera Database (Van Soest et al. 2019) at thet time assumed Von Lendenfeld’s D. villosa was a member of Callyspongia, hence the previous entry of Callyspongia villosa Von Lendenfeld, but to date this combination was not known to be confirmed in the literature. Hooper & Wiedenmayer (1994: 108) suspected that Von Lendenfeld originally intended to name the species as Dactylochalina massa, because D. villosa is lacking in the summary table (p. 756) and D. massa is lacking in the descriptive part of Dactylochalina (pp. 810–814). D. massa is currently a nomen nudum, but a specimen so labelled is present in the Natural History Museum, London. Instead of confirming the combination Dactylochalina villosa as Callyspongia villosa, it was proposed to transfer it to the genus Haliclona as Haliclona
villosa (Von Lendenfeld, 1887), thus removing the homonymy with the senior name discussed above. The reasoning for this action is that the description of Von Lendenfeld of the skeleton of Dactylochalina villosa reads more like a Haliclona, than a Callyspongia, with meshes of 130 μm in diameter and spicules of 100 x 3 μm in dimension, clearly unlike a typical Callyspongia skeleton.
3. Summary: Callyspongia (Cladochalina) villosa (Pallas, 1766) is a senior secondary homonym (ICZN Art. 57.3), but was reassigned as a junior synonym of Callyspongia (Cladochalina) aculeata (Linnaeus, 1759), which removed the h [details]
