WoRMS taxon details
Corbitella Gray, 1867
171854 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:171854)
accepted
Genus
Alcyoncellum speciosum Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 accepted as Corbitella speciosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) (type by original designation)
Alcyoncellum Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 · unaccepted (unavailable name)
Eudictyon Marshall, 1875 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Eudictyum Marshall, 1875 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Habrodictyon Thomson, 1868 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Habrodictyum Thomson, 1868 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Taegeria Schulze, 1886 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
- Species Corbitella discasterosa Tabachnick & Lévi, 2004
- Species Corbitella elegans (Marshall, 1875)
- Species Corbitella inopiosa Reiswig & Kelly, 2018
- Species Corbitella plagiariorum Reiswig & Kelly, 2018
- Species Corbitella polyacantha Kou, Gong & Li, 2018
- Species Corbitella pulchra (Schulze, 1886)
- Species Corbitella speciosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
- Species Corbitella corbicula (Bowerbank, 1962) accepted as Heterotella corbicula (Bowerbank, 1862) (genus transfer)
- Species Corbitella n_sp_NIWA_SO254 [of Dohrmann et al., 2023] (temporary name)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
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] 
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. Corbitella Gray, 1867. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=171854 on 2026-02-20
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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]
original description (of Alcyoncellum Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1832-1835). <i>Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe: exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie.</i> 1: i-l, 1-264; 2(1): 1-321 [1832]; 2(2): 321-686 [1833]; 3(1): 1-366 [1834]; 3(2): 367-954 [1835]; 4 [1833]; Atlas (Mollusques): pls 1-93 [1833] ...etc. In: Dumont d'Urville, J.; 1834, Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Paris, J. Tastu, Éditeur-Imprimeur., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.2132
page(s): 1833, Zoologie, t. 4, page 302 [details]
original description (of Eudictyon Marshall, 1875) Marshall, W. (1875). Untersuchungen über Hexactinelliden. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 25 (Supplement)(2): 142-243, pls XI-XVII. [details]
original description (of Taegeria Schulze, 1886) Schulze, F.E. (1886). Über den Bau und das System der Hexactinelliden. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Physikalisch-Mathematische Classe).</em> 1-97.
page(s): 41 [details]
original description (of Taegeria Schulze, 1886) Schulze, F.E. (1887). Report on the Hexactinellida collected by H.M.S. ‘Challenger' during the years 1873-76. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 21 (part 53): 1-514, pl. 1-104., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-53/README.htm
page(s): 94 [details]
original description (of Habrodictyon Thomson, 1868) Thomson, C.W. (1868). On the 'Vitreous' Sponges. <em>Annals and Magazine of natural History.</em> (4) 1(2): 114-132, pl. IV. [details]
basis of record Tabachnick, K.R. (2002). Family Euplectellidae Gray, 1867. pp. 1388-1434. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Systema Porifera - A Guide to the Classification of Sponges (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY, 1708 + XLVIII. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_146 [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Tabachnick, K.R. (2002 [2004]). Family Euplectellidae Gray, 1867. pp. 1388-1434. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Systema Porifera - A Guide to the Classification of Sponges (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY, 1708 + XLVIII. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Alcyoncellum Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1832-1835). <i>Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe: exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie.</i> 1: i-l, 1-264; 2(1): 1-321 [1832]; 2(2): 321-686 [1833]; 3(1): 1-366 [1834]; 3(2): 367-954 [1835]; 4 [1833]; Atlas (Mollusques): pls 1-93 [1833] ...etc. In: Dumont d'Urville, J.; 1834, Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Paris, J. Tastu, Éditeur-Imprimeur., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.2132
page(s): 1833, Zoologie, t. 4, page 302 [details]
original description (of Eudictyon Marshall, 1875) Marshall, W. (1875). Untersuchungen über Hexactinelliden. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 25 (Supplement)(2): 142-243, pls XI-XVII. [details]
original description (of Taegeria Schulze, 1886) Schulze, F.E. (1886). Über den Bau und das System der Hexactinelliden. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Physikalisch-Mathematische Classe).</em> 1-97.
page(s): 41 [details]
original description (of Taegeria Schulze, 1886) Schulze, F.E. (1887). Report on the Hexactinellida collected by H.M.S. ‘Challenger' during the years 1873-76. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 21 (part 53): 1-514, pl. 1-104., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-53/README.htm
page(s): 94 [details]
original description (of Habrodictyon Thomson, 1868) Thomson, C.W. (1868). On the 'Vitreous' Sponges. <em>Annals and Magazine of natural History.</em> (4) 1(2): 114-132, pl. IV. [details]
basis of record Tabachnick, K.R. (2002). Family Euplectellidae Gray, 1867. pp. 1388-1434. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Systema Porifera - A Guide to the Classification of Sponges (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY, 1708 + XLVIII. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_146 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Tabachnick, K.R. (2002 [2004]). Family Euplectellidae Gray, 1867. pp. 1388-1434. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Systema Porifera - A Guide to the Classification of Sponges (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY, 1708 + XLVIII. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Corbitella)
To Genbank
To NHMUK collection (Corbitella Gray, 1867; NHMUK:ecatalogue:6612457)
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To Genbank
To NHMUK collection (Corbitella Gray, 1867; NHMUK:ecatalogue:6612457)
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