WoRMS name details
Reniera alba var. pontica Czerniavsky, 1880
843218 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:843218)
unaccepted (genus transfer and preoccupied)
Variety
- Forma Reniera alba var. pontica f. polypoides Czerniavsky, 1880 accepted as Haliclona alba albapontica Van Soest, 2024 (genus transfer and unavailable name)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Czerniavsky, V. (1880 [1879]). Spongiae littorales Pontis Euxini et maris Caspii. Continuatio. <em>Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.</em> 54 (3): 88-128, 228-320, pls I-IV [In Russian]. [details]
Note No type material is known, but presumed to be...
From editor or global species database
Type material No type material is known, but presumed to be in ZIN-RAS. [details]
Homonymy Reniera alba var. pontica(Czerniavsky, 1880) is here treated as a Black Sea subspecies of Haliclona alba (Schmidt, 1862)...
Homonymy Reniera alba var. pontica(Czerniavsky, 1880) is here treated as a Black Sea subspecies of Haliclona alba (Schmidt, 1862) described from the Adriatic, assuming the Black Sea has endemic forms of Mediterranean species. Still, Ereskovsky et al. (2016, 2018) list also Haliclona alba s.s. from the Black Sea, but there are no descriptions in the Ereskovsky et al. papers. Since Schmidt’s species lacks recent records or descriptions the status of the present variety is taxon inquirendum. This is a secondary homonym of Haliclona pontica (Czerniavsky, 1880: 231 as Cacochalina digitata var. pontica). Because the combination Haliclona pontica was already used for this taxon by Ereskovsky et al. (2016: 405, table A1), Cacochalina digitata var. pontica became the senior homonym, despite Reniera alba var. pontica having page priority (q.v.). The two pontica’s are currently considered congeneric, so the present combination needed a new subspecies name (ICZN art. 59.1), for which Van Soest (2024: 43) proposed H. alba subsp. albapontica nom.nov., making use of an unfortunate misspelling of the original homonym in Van Soest (2001). That name is here treated as an unavailable nomen nudum, which Van Soest (2024) made available (Ereskovsky et al. 2016: table A1 only lists the name as the earlier nomen nudum of Van Soest, 2001, and no indication is given by these authors that it concerns a nomen novum or nova species). [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.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2024). World Porifera Database. Reniera alba var. pontica Czerniavsky, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=843218 on 2024-03-28
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original description
Czerniavsky, V. (1880 [1879]). Spongiae littorales Pontis Euxini et maris Caspii. Continuatio. <em>Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.</em> 54 (3): 88-128, 228-320, pls I-IV [In Russian]. [details]
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2024). Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5398(1): 1-122., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1
page(s): 43 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2024). Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5398(1): 1-122., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1
page(s): 43 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Homonymy Reniera alba var. pontica(Czerniavsky, 1880) is here treated as a Black Sea subspecies of Haliclona alba (Schmidt, 1862) described from the Adriatic, assuming the Black Sea has endemic forms of Mediterranean species. Still, Ereskovsky et al. (2016, 2018) list also Haliclona alba s.s. from the Black Sea, but there are no descriptions in the Ereskovsky et al. papers. Since Schmidt’s species lacks recent records or descriptions the status of the present variety is taxon inquirendum. This is a secondary homonym of Haliclona pontica (Czerniavsky, 1880: 231 as Cacochalina digitata var. pontica). Because the combination Haliclona pontica was already used for this taxon by Ereskovsky et al. (2016: 405, table A1), Cacochalina digitata var. pontica became the senior homonym, despite Reniera alba var. pontica having page priority (q.v.). The two pontica’s are currently considered congeneric, so the present combination needed a new subspecies name (ICZN art. 59.1), for which Van Soest (2024: 43) proposed H. alba subsp. albapontica nom.nov., making use of an unfortunate misspelling of the original homonym in Van Soest (2001). That name is here treated as an unavailable nomen nudum, which Van Soest (2024) made available (Ereskovsky et al. 2016: table A1 only lists the name as the earlier nomen nudum of Van Soest, 2001, and no indication is given by these authors that it concerns a nomen novum or nova species). [details]Type material No type material is known, but presumed to be in ZIN-RAS. [details]