WoRMS taxon details
Raspailia (Raspailia) Nardo, 1833
168128 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168128)
accepted
Subgenus
Raspailia typica Nardo, 1833 accepted as Raspailia (Raspailia) viminalis Schmidt, 1862 (type by monotypy)
Abila Gray, 1867 · unaccepted (preoccupied)
Valedictyum Laubenfels, 1936 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) anastomosa Kumar, 1925
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) atropurpurea (Carter, 1885)
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) bathyalis Boury-Esnault, Pansini & Uriz, 1994
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) echinata Whitelegge, 1907
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) gracilis (Lendenfeld, 1888)
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) kennedyi Hooper, Sutcliffe & Schlacher-Hoenlinger, 2008
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) muricyana Moraes, 2011
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) phakellopsis Hooper, 1991
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) pinnatifida (Carter, 1885)
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) radiosa (Bowerbank, 1866)
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) ramosa (Montagu, 1814)
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) scorpa Hooper, Sutcliffe & Schlacher-Hoenlinger, 2008
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) tenella (Lendenfeld, 1888)
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) tenuis Ridley & Dendy, 1886
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) ventilabrum (Bowerbank, 1866)
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) vestigifera Dendy, 1896
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) viminalis Schmidt, 1862
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) virgultosa (Bowerbank, 1866)
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) wilkinsoni Hooper, 1991
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) echinata Uriz, 1988 accepted as Raspailia (Raspailia) urizae Hooper, 2012 (junior homonym of Raspailia (Raspailia) echinata Whitelegge, 1907)
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) johnhooperi Van Soest, 2017 accepted as Endectyon (Endectyon) xerampelinum (Lamarck, 1814) (junior synonym)
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) pumila (Bowerbank, 1866) accepted as Raspailia (Raspailia) ramosa (Montagu, 1814)
- Species Raspailia (Raspailia) urizae Hooper, 2012 (unaccepted > interim unpublished)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Raspelia Nardo, 1833) Nardo, G.D. (1833). Auszug aus einem neuen System der Spongiarien,wonach bereits die Aufstellung in der Universitäts-Sammlung zu Padua gemacht ist. Pp. 519-523. <em>In: Isis, oder Encyclopädische Zeitung Coll. (Oken: Jena).</em>
page(s): 522 [details]
page(s): 522 [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.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2026). World Porifera Database. Raspailia (Raspailia) Nardo, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=168128 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Abila Gray, 1867) Gray, J.E. (1867). Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details] 
original description (of Valedictyum Laubenfels, 1936) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1936). A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. <em>Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication.</em> 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30) 1-225, pls 1-22.
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original description (of Raspelia Nardo, 1833) Nardo, G.D. (1833). Auszug aus einem neuen System der Spongiarien,wonach bereits die Aufstellung in der Universitäts-Sammlung zu Padua gemacht ist. Pp. 519-523. <em>In: Isis, oder Encyclopädische Zeitung Coll. (Oken: Jena).</em>
page(s): 522 [details]
basis of record Hooper, J.N.A. (2002). Family Raspailiidae Hentschel, 1923. pp. 469-510. <i>In</i> Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds.) Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. Vol. 1. (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_53 [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Hooper, J. N. A. (2002 [2004]). Family Raspailiidae Hentschel, 1923. Pp. 469–510. <em>In: </em>Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). <em>Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges.</em> (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York. 1708+XLVIII. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Valedictyum Laubenfels, 1936) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1936). A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. <em>Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication.</em> 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30) 1-225, pls 1-22.
page(s): 102 [details] Available for editors
original description (of Raspelia Nardo, 1833) Nardo, G.D. (1833). Auszug aus einem neuen System der Spongiarien,wonach bereits die Aufstellung in der Universitäts-Sammlung zu Padua gemacht ist. Pp. 519-523. <em>In: Isis, oder Encyclopädische Zeitung Coll. (Oken: Jena).</em>
page(s): 522 [details]
basis of record Hooper, J.N.A. (2002). Family Raspailiidae Hentschel, 1923. pp. 469-510. <i>In</i> Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds.) Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. Vol. 1. (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_53 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Hooper, J. N. A. (2002 [2004]). Family Raspailiidae Hentschel, 1923. Pp. 469–510. <em>In: </em>Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). <em>Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges.</em> (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York. 1708+XLVIII. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
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