WoRMS name details
Anchinoe purpurea Tanita, 1961
189965 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:189965)
unaccepted (genus transfer and secondary junior homonymy)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Type locality contained in Central Kuroshio Current
type locality contained in Central Kuroshio Current [details]
Homonymy Because of the junior synonymy of Anchinoe with Phorbas, the species Anchinoe purpurea was transferred to Phorbas purpureus...
Homonymy Because of the junior synonymy of Anchinoe with Phorbas, the species Anchinoe purpurea was transferred to Phorbas purpureus and this combination is preoccupied by Phorbas purpureus (Carter, 1886) (junior secondary homonymy). A new name was proposed by Hajdu & Teixeira, 2011. [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. Anchinoe purpurea Tanita, 1961. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=189965 on 2026-09-12
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
Tanita, S. (1961). Report on the sponges collected from the Kurushima Strait, Seto Inland Sea. <em>Memoirs of the Ehime University, Sect II (B).</em> 4: 335-354.
page(s): 344-345 [details] Available for editors
[request]
page(s): 344-345 [details] Available for editors
[request]Other
additional source
Rho, B.J.; Sim, C.J. (1972). Marine sponges in South Korea (3). <em>Journal of the Korean Research Institute for Better Living.</em> 8: 181-192.
page(s): 184 [details]
additional source Sim, C.J. (1994). Sponges from Cheju Island, Korea. <em>In: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Van Kempen, T.M.G.; Braekman, J.C. (eds) Sponges in Time and Space. Biology, Chemistry, Paleontology. Balkema, Rotterdam, pp 175-181.</em>
page(s): 128, Table 2 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 184 [details]
additional source Sim, C.J. (1994). Sponges from Cheju Island, Korea. <em>In: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Van Kempen, T.M.G.; Braekman, J.C. (eds) Sponges in Time and Space. Biology, Chemistry, Paleontology. Balkema, Rotterdam, pp 175-181.</em>
page(s): 128, Table 2 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Homonymy Because of the junior synonymy of Anchinoe with Phorbas, the species Anchinoe purpurea was transferred to Phorbas purpureus and this combination is preoccupied by Phorbas purpureus (Carter, 1886) (junior secondary homonymy). A new name was proposed by Hajdu & Teixeira, 2011. [details]
