WoRMS name details
Lanice spongicola Jimi in Jimi, Manzano, Hookabe, Kise, Reimer, Woo, Fujiwara, 2025
1867623 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1867623)
unaccepted > superseded combination (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Jimi, Naoto; Manzano, Geminne G.; Hookabe, Natsumi; Kise, Hiroki; Reimer, James Davis; Woo, Sau Pinn; Fujiwara, Yoshihiro. (2025). New deep sea terebellid polychaete with sucker like ventral pads adapted to a sediment free environment. <em>Scientific Reports.</em> 15(1: 36307) 1-9., available online at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-23333-z
page(s): 3 of 9, figures 1-3; note: Holotype, NSMT-Pol H-999, from exterior of sponge Walteria cf. leuckarti northwest of Minamidaito Island, Okinawa, Japan, 25.8680 N,131.208 E (25°52.081´ N, 131°12.483´ E), 843 m depth [details]
page(s): 3 of 9, figures 1-3; note: Holotype, NSMT-Pol H-999, from exterior of sponge Walteria cf. leuckarti northwest of Minamidaito Island, Okinawa, Japan, 25.8680 N,131.208 E (25°52.081´ N, 131°12.483´ E), 843 m depth [details]
Holotype NSMT NSMT-Pol H-999, geounit Okinawa Island
, Note Holotype, NSMT-Pol H-999, from exterior of...
Holotype NSMT NSMT-Pol H-999, geounit Okinawa Island [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Holotype, NSMT-Pol H-999, from exterior of sponge Walteria cf. leuckarti northwest of Minamidaito Island, Okinawa, Japan, 25.8680 N,131.208 E (25°52.081´ N, 131°12.483´ E), 843 m depth, collected by ROV. [details]
Etymology Lanice spongicola is so named because of its "ecological association with sponges". Compound genus nouns ending in -cola...
Etymology Lanice spongicola is so named because of its "ecological association with sponges". Compound genus nouns ending in -cola are either masculine or common gender. But here we may have a species-group -cola adjective, presumably declined as -colus, -a, -um (classically cola is a noun and Brown's dictionary labels colus -a -um forms as new latin) although the authors do not indicate whether the species-group name is to be regarded as a noun in apposition or an adjective. Likewise the gender of Lanice is uncertain but probably feminine. There are no obviously masculine species-group names in genus Lanice.. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Lanice spongicola Jimi in Jimi, Manzano, Hookabe, Kise, Reimer, Woo, Fujiwara, 2025. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1867623 on 2026-10-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Jimi, Naoto; Manzano, Geminne G.; Hookabe, Natsumi; Kise, Hiroki; Reimer, James Davis; Woo, Sau Pinn; Fujiwara, Yoshihiro. (2025). New deep sea terebellid polychaete with sucker like ventral pads adapted to a sediment free environment. <em>Scientific Reports.</em> 15(1: 36307) 1-9., available online at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-23333-z
page(s): 3 of 9, figures 1-3; note: Holotype, NSMT-Pol H-999, from exterior of sponge Walteria cf. leuckarti northwest of Minamidaito Island, Okinawa, Japan, 25.8680 N,131.208 E (25°52.081´ N, 131°12.483´ E), 843 m depth [details]
page(s): 3 of 9, figures 1-3; note: Holotype, NSMT-Pol H-999, from exterior of sponge Walteria cf. leuckarti northwest of Minamidaito Island, Okinawa, Japan, 25.8680 N,131.208 E (25°52.081´ N, 131°12.483´ E), 843 m depth [details]
Holotype NSMT NSMT-Pol H-999, geounit Okinawa Island [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Lanice spongicola is so named because of its "ecological association with sponges". Compound genus nouns ending in -cola are either masculine or common gender. But here we may have a species-group -cola adjective, presumably declined as -colus, -a, -um (classically cola is a noun and Brown's dictionary labels colus -a -um forms as new latin) although the authors do not indicate whether the species-group name is to be regarded as a noun in apposition or an adjective. Likewise the gender of Lanice is uncertain but probably feminine. There are no obviously masculine species-group names in genus Lanice.. [details]Habitat (Jimi et al, 2025: 4) "Tube thin, flexible, with numerous thorny projections. Projections repeatedly branched. Tube composed of hardened mucus, encrusted with sand grains and foraminifera. Sponge spicules absent. Both ends of tube open" [...] "Lanice spongicola sp. nov. were collected from the external surface of the sponge Walteria cf. leuckarti. The host sponge was found off Minamidaito Island in the northwestern Pacific Ocean at a depth of 843 m. The host’s habitat consisted entirely of solid rock, with no surrounding sediment. While most terebellids typically inhabit sediment, this species constructed its tube on the lower part of the sponge, which was growing like a tree. When extracted from its tube, it was found to be tightly adhered to the inner wall of the tube using its ventral pad, which is deeply grooved and modified into a sucker-like structure. This suggests that the ventral pad functions as an adhesion organ. This adhesive behavior likely allows the worm to anchor itself securely to the sponge surface during tube construction or when exposed to ambient water currents in a sediment-free environment (= on Walteria tree sponge).. [details]
Type locality Holotype, NSMT-Pol H-999, from exterior of sponge Walteria cf. leuckarti northwest of Minamidaito Island, Okinawa, Japan, 25.8680 N,131.208 E (25°52.081´ N, 131°12.483´ E), 843 m depth, collected by ROV. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | kyuban-fusagokai | [details] |
