WoRMS name details
Halichondria palmata sensu Lieberkühn, 1859
1583886 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1583886)
unaccepted (genus transfer and misapplication)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Lieberkühn, N. (1859). Neue Beiträge zur Anatomie der Spongien. <em>Archiv für Anatomie und Physiologie.</em> 30(3): 353-382, 515-529, pls IX-XI.
note: Lieberkühn refers to Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786, but this is Isodictya palmata. not the present species. [details]
note: Lieberkühn refers to Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786, but this is Isodictya palmata. not the present species. [details]
Nomenclature Regarding the name Reniera palmata (sensu Lieberkühn 1859) the following consideration is here made: the Mediterranean...
Nomenclature Regarding the name Reniera palmata (sensu Lieberkühn 1859) the following consideration is here made: the Mediterranean name palmata is a misapplication by Lieberkühn of Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786 (a North Atlantic species currently accepted as Isodictya palmata). Johnston (1842) used the combination Halichondria palmata for Isodictya palmata, and this was also used by Lieberkühn, but this time for a different species from the Adriatic Sea. Schmidt (1862: 74) assigned Lieberkühn’s misapplication to his genus Reniera (currently a junior name for Haliclona Grant, 1841) and his Reniera palmata is in fact a new combination (as Schmidt indeed asserted himself by using ‘nobis’ for the authorship and questioning the authorship of Ellis & Solander). Because the homonymic Halichondria palmata sensu Johnston and Halichondria palmata sensu Lieberkühn are not currently in the same genus (Isodictya viz. Haliclona), Haliclona palmata was assigned to the authorship of Schmidt, 1862 (allowed under ICZN art. 59.3) by Van Soest (2024: 44-45). The species Haliclona palmata was reported from the Black Sea by Czerniavsky (1880) as Reniera, by Borcea (1937), Arndt (1947: 6) and Gomoiu (1963: 349) as Adocia, and by Ereskovsky et al. (2016) as Haliclona. The species name remains largely unused in the current Mediterranean sponge literature. Griessinger (1971: 162 as Adocia) dubiously referred a specimen from the Strassbourg Museum labeled ‘Reniera palmata Schmidt ? Naples’ to the species, complaining about the insufficient description by Schmidt. This Naples specimen was presumably identified by Topsent, because Topsent (1925a: 721) mentioned the name in his list of Naples sponges, but did not describe it. Burton (1930), discussing the species assigned to the genus Reniera, stated that Schmidt’s species Reniera palmata “almost certainly belongs to Reniera cinerea (Grant, 1826)”, on the basis of “a spicule-preparation purchased from Schmidt” and “some twenty specimens of this species from the Adriatic”. De Weerdt (1986, 1989) failed to mention the species name R. palmata in her account of the many specimens and species she assigned to Haliclona cinerea (De Weerdt, 1987: thesis p. 140-155). None of the more recent authors mentioned or described Haliclona material under the combination Haliclona palmata. Nevertheless, there are several original specimens from the Adriatic identified by Schmidt in the Graz collection (LMJG nrs. 15324–25, 15332–33, 15631–32), see Desqueyroux-Faúndez & Stone 1992: pl. XXXIII figs. 197–202), so a re evaluation of the species is possible and urgent. [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. Halichondria palmata sensu Lieberkühn, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1583886 on 2024-04-23
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Lieberkühn, N. (1859). Neue Beiträge zur Anatomie der Spongien. <em>Archiv für Anatomie und Physiologie.</em> 30(3): 353-382, 515-529, pls IX-XI.
note: Lieberkühn refers to Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786, but this is Isodictya palmata. not the present species. [details]
note: Lieberkühn refers to Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786, but this is Isodictya palmata. not the present species. [details]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Regarding the name Reniera palmata (sensu Lieberkühn 1859) the following consideration is here made: the Mediterranean name palmata is a misapplication by Lieberkühn of Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786 (a North Atlantic species currently accepted as Isodictya palmata). Johnston (1842) used the combination Halichondria palmata for Isodictya palmata, and this was also used by Lieberkühn, but this time for a different species from the Adriatic Sea. Schmidt (1862: 74) assigned Lieberkühn’s misapplication to his genus Reniera (currently a junior name for Haliclona Grant, 1841) and his Reniera palmata is in fact a new combination (as Schmidt indeed asserted himself by using ‘nobis’ for the authorship and questioning the authorship of Ellis & Solander). Because the homonymic Halichondria palmata sensu Johnston and Halichondria palmata sensu Lieberkühn are not currently in the same genus (Isodictya viz. Haliclona), Haliclona palmata was assigned to the authorship of Schmidt, 1862 (allowed under ICZN art. 59.3) by Van Soest (2024: 44-45). The species Haliclona palmata was reported from the Black Sea by Czerniavsky (1880) as Reniera, by Borcea (1937), Arndt (1947: 6) and Gomoiu (1963: 349) as Adocia, and by Ereskovsky et al. (2016) as Haliclona. The species name remains largely unused in the current Mediterranean sponge literature. Griessinger (1971: 162 as Adocia) dubiously referred a specimen from the Strassbourg Museum labeled ‘Reniera palmata Schmidt ? Naples’ to the species, complaining about the insufficient description by Schmidt. This Naples specimen was presumably identified by Topsent, because Topsent (1925a: 721) mentioned the name in his list of Naples sponges, but did not describe it. Burton (1930), discussing the species assigned to the genus Reniera, stated that Schmidt’s species Reniera palmata “almost certainly belongs to Reniera cinerea (Grant, 1826)”, on the basis of “a spicule-preparation purchased from Schmidt” and “some twenty specimens of this species from the Adriatic”. De Weerdt (1986, 1989) failed to mention the species name R. palmata in her account of the many specimens and species she assigned to Haliclona cinerea (De Weerdt, 1987: thesis p. 140-155). None of the more recent authors mentioned or described Haliclona material under the combination Haliclona palmata. Nevertheless, there are several original specimens from the Adriatic identified by Schmidt in the Graz collection (LMJG nrs. 15324–25, 15332–33, 15631–32), see Desqueyroux-Faúndez & Stone 1992: pl. XXXIII figs. 197–202), so a re evaluation of the species is possible and urgent. [details]
