WoRMS taxon details
Petrosia (Petrosia) ficiformis (Poiret, 1789)
166837 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:166837)
accepted
Species
Alcyonium distortum Lamarck, 1815 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Petrosia dura (Schmidt, 1862) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789) · alternate representation (subgenus assignment)
Rayneria dura Nardo, 1834 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Reniera compacta Schmidt, 1864 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Reniera dura Schmidt, 1862 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Schmidtia dura (Schmidt, 1862) · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Schmidtia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Schmidtia fungiformis Balsamo Crivelli, 1863 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spongia ficiformis Poiret, 1789 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Spongia ficiformis Poiret, 1789) Poiret, J. L. M. (1789). Voyage en Barbarie, ou Lettres Ecrites del'Ancienne Numidie pendant les Années 1785 et 1786, avec un Essai sur l'Histoire naturelle de ce Pays. <em>Deuxième Partie.</em> 1-315. [details] 
Type locality contained in Western Mediterranean
type locality contained in Western Mediterranean [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. (2023). World Porifera Database. Petrosia (Petrosia) ficiformis (Poiret, 1789). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=166837 on 2023-09-30
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original description
(of Rayneria dura Nardo, 1834) Nardo, G. D. (1834). De Spongiis. <em>Isis (Oken).</em> 714-716. [details]
original description (of Spongia ficiformis Poiret, 1789) Poiret, J. L. M. (1789). Voyage en Barbarie, ou Lettres Ecrites del'Ancienne Numidie pendant les Années 1785 et 1786, avec un Essai sur l'Histoire naturelle de ce Pays. <em>Deuxième Partie.</em> 1-315. [details]
original description (of Reniera dura Schmidt, 1862) Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 76-77; pl VII fig 13 [details]
original description (of Alcyonium distortum Lamarck, 1815) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1815 [1814]). Suite des polypiers empâtés. <em>Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.</em> 1: 69-80, 162-168, 331-340. [details]
original description (of Reniera compacta Schmidt, 1864) Schmidt, O. (1864). Supplement der Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. <em>Enthaltend die Histologie und systematische Ergänzungen. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig).</em> i-vi: 1-48, pls 1-4.
page(s): 38-39 [details]
original description (of Schmidtia fungiformis Balsamo Crivelli, 1863) Balsamo Crivelli, G. (1863). Di alcuni Spongiarii del Golfo di Napoli. <em>Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale.</em> 5: 1-19, pl. IV-VI.
page(s): 9 [details]
basis of record Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Valentine, C. (2002 [2004]). Family Petrosiidae Van Soest, 1980. Pp. 906-917. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York. 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
[request]
basis of record Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Valentine, C. (2002). Family Petrosiidae Van Soest, 1980. Pp. 906-917. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York. 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bertolino, M.; Bo, M.; Canese, S.; Bavestrello, G.; Pansini, M. (2015). Deep sponge communities of the Gulf of St Eufemia (Calabria, southern Tyrrhenian Sea), with description of two new species. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 95 (07), 1371-1387., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315413001380
page(s): 1385 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Evcen, A.; Çinar, M.E. (2012). Sponge (Porifera) species from the Mediterranean coast of Turkey (Levantine Sea, eastern Mediterranean), with a checklist of sponges from the coasts of Turkey. <em>Turkish Journal of Zoology,.</em> 36, 460-464.
page(s): 463 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Gerovasileiou, V.; Voultsiadou, E. (2012). Marine Caves of the Mediterranean Sea: A Sponge Biodiversity Reservoir within a Biodiversity Hotspot. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 7(7): e39873., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039873
page(s): Table S1 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Gerovasileiou, V.; Voultsiadou, E. (2016). Sponge diversity gradients in marine caves of the eastern Mediterranean. <i>In</i>: Schönberg C.H.L., Fromont J., Hooper J.N.A., Sorokin S., Zhang W. & de Voogd N (eds) New Frontiers in Sponge Science. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 96: 407-416., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315415000697
page(s): 5 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Costa, G.; Betti, F.; Nepote, E.; Cattaneo-Vietti, R.; Pansini, M.; Bavestrello, G.; Bertolino, M. (2018). Sponge community variations within two semi-submerged caves of the Ligurian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) over a half-century time span. <em>The European Zoological Journal.</em> 85 (1): 382-392., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2018.1525439
page(s): 386 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Longo, C.; Cardone, F.; Pierri, C.; Mercurio, M.; Mucciolo, S.; Marzano, C.N.; Corriero, G. (2018). Sponges associated with coralligenous formations along the Apulian coasts. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 48(4): 2151-2163., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0744-x
page(s): 2158 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Santín, A.; Grinyó, J.; Ambroso, S.; Uriz, M.-J.; Gori, A.; Dominguez-Carrió, C.; Gili, J.-M. (2018). Sponge assemblages on the deep Mediterranean continental shelf and slope (Menorca Channel, Western Mediterranean Sea). <em>Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers.</em> 131: 75-86., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2017.11.003
page(s): Supplementary data [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Đorđević, N.; Petović, S. (2020). Diversity and distribution of class Demospongiae (phylum Porifera) in the Boka Kotorska bay. <em>Studia Marina.</em> 33 (2): 5-14., available online at http://www.studiamarina.ac.me/pdf/33/No2/Diversity%20and%20distribution%20of%20Demospongiae%20in%20BKB.pdf
page(s): 9 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Idan, T.; Shefer, S.; Feldstein, T.; Ilan, M. (2021). New discoveries in Eastern Mediterranean mesophotic sponge grounds: updated checklist and description of three novel sponge species. <em>Mediterranean Marine Science.</em> 22 (2): 270-284., available online at https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.25837
page(s): 281 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Varsha, M.S.; ; Ranjith, L.; Varghese, M.; Joshi, K.K.; Sethulakshmi, M.; Prasad, A.R.; Antony, T.P.; Parvathy. M.S.; Jesuraj, N.; Muthukrishnan, P.; Ravindren, I.; Paulpondi, A.; Kanthan, K.P.; Karuppuswami, M.; Biswas, M.; Gopalakrishnan, A. (2020). Biodiversity of sponges (Phylum: Porifera) off Tuticorin, India. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India.</em> 62(2): 40-57., available online at https://doi.org/10.6024/jmbai.2020.62.2.2250-05
page(s): 48; note: Probable misapplication. P. ficiformis is predominantly a Mediterranean/ NE Atlantic species not previously reported in the Gulf of Mannar, Indian region. Until the record is confirmed through re-exam...
[details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Roveta, C.; Marrocco, T.; Calcinai, B.; Pulido Mantas, T.; Pica, D.; Valisano, L.; Puce, S. (2022). Unravelling the sponge diversity of the Tuscan Archipelago National Park (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy). <em>The European Zoological Journal.</em> 89(1): 310-323., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2022.2042406
page(s): 314 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Krikech, I.; Le Pennec, G.; Ezziyyani, M. (2022). Preliminary study of the shallow water sponges (Demospongiae) from the north-central Moroccan Mediterranean coast. <em>AACL Bioflux.</em> 15 (1): 305-313.
page(s): Table 2 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Spongia ficiformis Poiret, 1789) Poiret, J. L. M. (1789). Voyage en Barbarie, ou Lettres Ecrites del'Ancienne Numidie pendant les Années 1785 et 1786, avec un Essai sur l'Histoire naturelle de ce Pays. <em>Deuxième Partie.</em> 1-315. [details]
original description (of Reniera dura Schmidt, 1862) Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 76-77; pl VII fig 13 [details]
original description (of Alcyonium distortum Lamarck, 1815) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1815 [1814]). Suite des polypiers empâtés. <em>Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.</em> 1: 69-80, 162-168, 331-340. [details]
original description (of Reniera compacta Schmidt, 1864) Schmidt, O. (1864). Supplement der Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. <em>Enthaltend die Histologie und systematische Ergänzungen. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig).</em> i-vi: 1-48, pls 1-4.
page(s): 38-39 [details]
original description (of Schmidtia fungiformis Balsamo Crivelli, 1863) Balsamo Crivelli, G. (1863). Di alcuni Spongiarii del Golfo di Napoli. <em>Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale.</em> 5: 1-19, pl. IV-VI.
page(s): 9 [details]
basis of record Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Valentine, C. (2002 [2004]). Family Petrosiidae Van Soest, 1980. Pp. 906-917. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York. 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
[request] basis of record Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Valentine, C. (2002). Family Petrosiidae Van Soest, 1980. Pp. 906-917. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York. 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Bertolino, M.; Bo, M.; Canese, S.; Bavestrello, G.; Pansini, M. (2015). Deep sponge communities of the Gulf of St Eufemia (Calabria, southern Tyrrhenian Sea), with description of two new species. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 95 (07), 1371-1387., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315413001380
page(s): 1385 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Evcen, A.; Çinar, M.E. (2012). Sponge (Porifera) species from the Mediterranean coast of Turkey (Levantine Sea, eastern Mediterranean), with a checklist of sponges from the coasts of Turkey. <em>Turkish Journal of Zoology,.</em> 36, 460-464.
page(s): 463 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Gerovasileiou, V.; Voultsiadou, E. (2012). Marine Caves of the Mediterranean Sea: A Sponge Biodiversity Reservoir within a Biodiversity Hotspot. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 7(7): e39873., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039873
page(s): Table S1 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Gerovasileiou, V.; Voultsiadou, E. (2016). Sponge diversity gradients in marine caves of the eastern Mediterranean. <i>In</i>: Schönberg C.H.L., Fromont J., Hooper J.N.A., Sorokin S., Zhang W. & de Voogd N (eds) New Frontiers in Sponge Science. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 96: 407-416., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315415000697
page(s): 5 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Costa, G.; Betti, F.; Nepote, E.; Cattaneo-Vietti, R.; Pansini, M.; Bavestrello, G.; Bertolino, M. (2018). Sponge community variations within two semi-submerged caves of the Ligurian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) over a half-century time span. <em>The European Zoological Journal.</em> 85 (1): 382-392., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2018.1525439
page(s): 386 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Longo, C.; Cardone, F.; Pierri, C.; Mercurio, M.; Mucciolo, S.; Marzano, C.N.; Corriero, G. (2018). Sponges associated with coralligenous formations along the Apulian coasts. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 48(4): 2151-2163., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0744-x
page(s): 2158 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Santín, A.; Grinyó, J.; Ambroso, S.; Uriz, M.-J.; Gori, A.; Dominguez-Carrió, C.; Gili, J.-M. (2018). Sponge assemblages on the deep Mediterranean continental shelf and slope (Menorca Channel, Western Mediterranean Sea). <em>Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers.</em> 131: 75-86., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2017.11.003
page(s): Supplementary data [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Đorđević, N.; Petović, S. (2020). Diversity and distribution of class Demospongiae (phylum Porifera) in the Boka Kotorska bay. <em>Studia Marina.</em> 33 (2): 5-14., available online at http://www.studiamarina.ac.me/pdf/33/No2/Diversity%20and%20distribution%20of%20Demospongiae%20in%20BKB.pdf
page(s): 9 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Idan, T.; Shefer, S.; Feldstein, T.; Ilan, M. (2021). New discoveries in Eastern Mediterranean mesophotic sponge grounds: updated checklist and description of three novel sponge species. <em>Mediterranean Marine Science.</em> 22 (2): 270-284., available online at https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.25837
page(s): 281 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Varsha, M.S.; ; Ranjith, L.; Varghese, M.; Joshi, K.K.; Sethulakshmi, M.; Prasad, A.R.; Antony, T.P.; Parvathy. M.S.; Jesuraj, N.; Muthukrishnan, P.; Ravindren, I.; Paulpondi, A.; Kanthan, K.P.; Karuppuswami, M.; Biswas, M.; Gopalakrishnan, A. (2020). Biodiversity of sponges (Phylum: Porifera) off Tuticorin, India. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India.</em> 62(2): 40-57., available online at https://doi.org/10.6024/jmbai.2020.62.2.2250-05
page(s): 48; note: Probable misapplication. P. ficiformis is predominantly a Mediterranean/ NE Atlantic species not previously reported in the Gulf of Mannar, Indian region. Until the record is confirmed through re-exam...
Probable misapplication. P. ficiformis is predominantly a Mediterranean/ NE Atlantic species not previously reported in the Gulf of Mannar, Indian region. Until the record is confirmed through re-examination of voucher specimens this distribution is incertae sedis
[request] additional source Roveta, C.; Marrocco, T.; Calcinai, B.; Pulido Mantas, T.; Pica, D.; Valisano, L.; Puce, S. (2022). Unravelling the sponge diversity of the Tuscan Archipelago National Park (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy). <em>The European Zoological Journal.</em> 89(1): 310-323., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2022.2042406
page(s): 314 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Krikech, I.; Le Pennec, G.; Ezziyyani, M. (2022). Preliminary study of the shallow water sponges (Demospongiae) from the north-central Moroccan Mediterranean coast. <em>AACL Bioflux.</em> 15 (1): 305-313.
page(s): Table 2 [details] Available for editors
[request] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Catalan | petrosiaesponja de pedra | [details] |
| Dutch | harde vijgspons | [details] |
| English | stony sponge | [details] |
| French | éponge pierre | [details] |
| German | FeigenschwammFeigenhornschwamm [from synonym] | [details] |
| Italian | spugna petrosia | [details] |
| Spanish | petrosia dura | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) (from synonym Petrosia dura (Schmidt, 1862))
To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes) (from synonym Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Rayneria dura Nardo, 1834)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Spongia ficiformis Poiret, 1789)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) (from synonym Petrosia dura (Schmidt, 1862))
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) (from synonym Petrosia dura (Schmidt, 1862))
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) (from synonym Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789))
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Petrosia dura (Schmidt, 1862))
To GenBank (3903 nucleotides; 31 proteins) (from synonym Spongia ficiformis Poiret, 1789)
To GenBank (3903 nucleotides; 31 proteins) (from synonym Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789))
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (3 records) (from synonym Petrosia dura (Schmidt, 1862))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (4 records) (from synonym Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789))
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 006166.PR) (from synonym Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789))
To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes) (from synonym Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Rayneria dura Nardo, 1834)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Spongia ficiformis Poiret, 1789)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) (from synonym Petrosia dura (Schmidt, 1862))
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) (from synonym Petrosia dura (Schmidt, 1862))
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) (from synonym Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789))
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Petrosia dura (Schmidt, 1862))
To GenBank (3903 nucleotides; 31 proteins) (from synonym Spongia ficiformis Poiret, 1789)
To GenBank (3903 nucleotides; 31 proteins) (from synonym Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789))
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (3 records) (from synonym Petrosia dura (Schmidt, 1862))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (4 records) (from synonym Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789))
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 006166.PR) (from synonym Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789))
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