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Mycale (Mycale) Gray, 1867

Mycale lingua at Gulen, Norway
Mycale lingua at Gulen, Norway

168621  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168621)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Porifera (Phylum)
  4. Demospongiae (Class)
  5. Heteroscleromorpha (Subclass)
  6. Poecilosclerida (Order)
  7. Mycalidae (Family)
  8. Mycale (Genus)
  9. Mycale (Mycale) (Subgenus)
accepted
Subgenus
Mycalecarmia de Laubenfels, 1936 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Raphioderma Bowerbank, 1869 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Raphiodesma Bowerbank, 1874 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Rhaphiodesma · unaccepted (misspelling and junior synonym)

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  1. Species Mycale (Mycale) alagoana Cedro, Hajdu & Correia, 2011
  2. Species Mycale (Mycale) anisochela Lévi, 1963
  3. Species Mycale (Mycale) arctica (Fristedt, 1887)
  4. Species Mycale (Mycale) arenaria Hajdu & Desqueyroux-Faúndez, 1994
  5. Species Mycale (Mycale) arenicola (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
  6. Species Mycale (Mycale) asigmata Van Soest, Aryasari & De Voogd, 2021
  7. Species Mycale (Mycale) beatrizae Hajdu & Desqueyroux-Faúndez, 1994
  8. Species Mycale (Mycale) bouryesnaultae Van Soest, Aryasari & De Voogd, 2021
  9. Species Mycale (Mycale) brownorum Goodwin, Brewin & Brickle, 2012
  10. Species Mycale (Mycale) cartwrighti Goodwin, Brewin & Brickle, 2012
  11. Species Mycale (Mycale) chujaensis Kang & Sim, 2005
  12. Species Mycale (Mycale) crassissima (Dendy, 1905)
  13. Species Mycale (Mycale) cylindrica (Whitelegge, 1906)
  14. Species Mycale (Mycale) darwini Hajdu & Desqueyroux-Faúndez, 1994
  15. Species Mycale (Mycale) dendyi (Row, 1911)
  16. Species Mycale (Mycale) diaphana (Schmidt, 1870)
  17. Species Mycale (Mycale) digitata Bergquist & Tizard, 1867
  18. Species Mycale (Mycale) doellojuradoi Burton, 1940
  19. Species Mycale (Mycale) ernsthentscheli Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
  20. Species Mycale (Mycale) gaussiana Hentschel, 1914
  21. Species Mycale (Mycale) gelatinosa (Ridley, 1884)
  22. Species Mycale (Mycale) geojensis Sim & Lee, 2001
  23. Species Mycale (Mycale) grandis Gray, 1867
  24. Species Mycale (Mycale) grandoides Van Soest, Aryasari & De Voogd, 2021
  25. Species Mycale (Mycale) immitis (Schmidt, 1870)
  26. Species Mycale (Mycale) incurvata Lévi, 1993
  27. Species Mycale (Mycale) izuensis Tanita & Hoshino, 1989
  28. Species Mycale (Mycale) japonica Koltun, 1959
  29. Species Mycale (Mycale) jasoniae Lehnert, Stone & Heimler, 2006
  30. Species Mycale (Mycale) laevis (Carter, 1882)
  31. Species Mycale (Mycale) lapidiformis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
  32. Species Mycale (Mycale) lindbergi Koltun, 1958
  33. Species Mycale (Mycale) lingua (Bowerbank, 1866)
  34. Species Mycale (Mycale) lobos Turner & Lonhart, 2023
  35. Species Mycale (Mycale) longistyla Koltun, 1958
  36. Species Mycale (Mycale) lorea Dinn, Ott, Marmen, Steeves, Côté, Hayes, Nozères, Everett, Powell & Chu, 2023
  37. Species Mycale (Mycale) loveni (Fristedt, 1887)
  38. Species Mycale (Mycale) macginitiei de Laubenfels, 1930
  39. Species Mycale (Mycale) mammiformis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
  40. Species Mycale (Mycale) massa (Schmidt, 1862)
  41. Species Mycale (Mycale) mauricei Van Soest, Aryasari & De Voogd, 2021
  42. Species Mycale (Mycale) meridionalis Lévi, 1963
  43. Species Mycale (Mycale) multisclera Pulitzer-Finali, 1993
  44. Species Mycale (Mycale) myriasclera Lévi & Lévi, 1983
  45. Species Mycale (Mycale) novaezealandiae Dendy, 1924
  46. Species Mycale (Mycale) ochotensis Koltun, 1959
  47. Species Mycale (Mycale) paschalis Desqueyroux-Faúndez, 1990
  48. Species Mycale (Mycale) profunda Koltun, 1964
  49. Species Mycale (Mycale) quadripartita Boury-Esnault, 1973
  50. Species Mycale (Mycale) salvadorensis Mácola, Nascimento, Pinheiro, Neves & Johnson, 2025
  51. Species Mycale (Mycale) sundaminorensis Van Soest, Aryasari & De Voogd, 2021
  52. Species Mycale (Mycale) thielei Hajdu & Desqueyroux-Faúndez, 1994
  53. Species Mycale (Mycale) toporoki Koltun, 1958
  54. Species Mycale (Mycale) topsenti Burton, 1959
  55. Species Mycale (Mycale) trichela Lévi, 1963
  56. Species Mycale (Mycale) tridens Hentschel, 1914
  57. Species Mycale (Mycale) tylota Koltun, 1958
  58. Species Mycale (Mycale) simplex (Czerniavsky, 1880) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  59. Species Mycale (Mycale) armata Thiele, 1903 accepted as Mycale (Mycale) grandis Gray, 1867 (junior synonym)
  60. Species Mycale (Mycale) aruensis Hentschel, 1912 accepted as Mycale (Mycale) dendyi (Row, 1911) (junior synonym)
  61. Species Mycale (Mycale) corallina Calcinai, Cerrano & Bavestrello, 2017 accepted as Mycale (Kerasemna) humilis (Thiele, 1903) (subgenus transfer and junior synonym)
  62. Species Mycale (Mycale) fibrosa Boury-Esnault & Van Beveren, 1982 accepted as Mycale (Mycale) bouryesnaultae Van Soest, Aryasari & De Voogd, 2021 (junior homonym)
  63. Species Mycale (Mycale) fusca (Ridley & Dendy, 1886) accepted as Mycale (Mycale) laevis (Carter, 1882) (junior synonymy)
  64. Species Mycale (Mycale) gravelyi Burton, 1937 accepted as Mycale (Aegogropila) gravelyi Burton, 1937 (subgenus transfer)
  65. Species Mycale (Mycale) hispida (Lambe, 1893) accepted as Mycale (Carmia) hispida (Lambe, 1893) (subgenus transfer)
  66. Species Mycale (Mycale) indica (Carter, 1887) accepted as Mycale (Mycale) grandis Gray, 1867 (junior synonym)
  67. Species Mycale (Mycale) loricata (Topsent, 1896) accepted as Mycale (Rhaphidotheca) loricata (Topsent, 1896) (subgenus transfer)
  68. Species Mycale (Mycale) macrochela Burton, 1932 accepted as Mycale (Mycale) mauricei Van Soest, Aryasari & De Voogd, 2021 (preoccupied)
  69. Species Mycale (Mycale) madraspatana Annandale, 1914 accepted as Mycale (Carmia) madraspatana Annandale, 1914 (subgenus transfer)
  70. Species Mycale (Mycale) magellanica (Ridley, 1881) accepted as Mycale (Aegogropila) magellanica (Ridley, 1881) (misapplied subgenus name)
  71. Species Mycale (Mycale) marshalhalli (Kent, 1870) accepted as Mycale (Rhaphidotheca) marshallhalli (Kent, 1870) (subgenus transfer)
  72. Species Mycale (Mycale) minor Hentschel, 1911 accepted as Mycale (Mycale) dendyi (Row, 1911) (junior synonym)
  73. Species Mycale (Mycale) monanchorata Burton & Rao, 1932 accepted as Mycale (Arenochalina) imperfecta Baer, 1906 (subgenus transfer and junior synonym)
  74. Species Mycale (Mycale) murrayi (Ridley & Dendy, 1886) accepted as Mycale (Carmia) murrayi (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
  75. Species Mycale (Mycale) oceanica (Topsent, 1924) accepted as Mycale (Mycale) massa (Schmidt, 1862) (junior synonym)
  76. Species Mycale (Mycale) orenzii Li, 2008 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
  77. Species Mycale (Mycale) parasitica (Carter, 1885) accepted as Mycale (Grapelia) australis (Gray, 1867) (subgenus transfer and junior synonym)
  78. Species Mycale (Mycale) rara (Dendy, 1896) accepted as Mycale (Arenochalina) rara (Dendy, 1896) (subgenus transfer)
  79. Species Mycale (Mycale) strongylophora (de Laubenfels, 1954) accepted as Mycale (Mycale) grandis Gray, 1867 (junior synonym)
  80. Species Mycale (Mycale) sulcata Hentschel, 1911 accepted as Mycale (Mycale) dendyi (Row, 1911) (junior synonym)
  81. Species Mycale (Mycale) sulevoidea (Sollas, 1902) accepted as Mycale (Aegogropila) sulevoidea (Sollas, 1902)
  82. Species Mycale (Mycale) vansoesti Calcinai, Cerrano, Totti, Romagnoli & Bavestrello, 2006 accepted as Mycale (Kerasemna) humilis (Thiele, 1903) (subgenus transfer and junior synonym)
  83. Species Mycale (Mycale) vosmaeri (Levinsen, 1887) represented as Mycale (Mycale) lingua (Bowerbank, 1866) (subgenus assignment)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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] OpenAccess publication

(of Mycale (Aegagropila) 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] OpenAccess publication
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. Mycale (Mycale) Gray, 1867. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=168621 on 2026-02-19
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z
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2006-12-30 16:09:24Z
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van Soest, Rob W.M.

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Nomenclature

original description 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] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Raphiodesma Bowerbank, 1874) Bowerbank, J.S. (1874). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1871265
page(s): 235-236 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Raphioderma Bowerbank, 1869) Norman, A.M. (1869). Last report on dredging among the Shetland Isles. Part 2. On the Crustacea, Tunicata, Polyzoa, Echinodermata, Actinozoa, Hydrozoa, and Porifera. <em>In: Report of the thirty-eighth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; held in Norwich in August 1868. London 1869.</em> pp. 247–336, (Amphipoda, pp. 273–288) (Porifera, pp. 327-335)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29387922 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Mycalecarmia de 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): 120 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Mycale (Aegagropila) 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] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Topsent, E. (1924). Révision des Mycales de l'Europe occidentale. <em>Annales de l'Institut océanographique.</em> 1(3): 77-118.
page(s): 83 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002). Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. <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 + xlviii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_73 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002 [2004]). Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. <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 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
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