Sycon
creator: van Soest, Rob W.M.
creator: Vanden Berghe, Edward
creator: Boury-Esnault, Nicole
creator: Klautau, Michelle
date: 2026-08-25
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Sycon Risso, 1827
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: 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. Sycon Risso, 1827. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131723 on 2026-08-24
created: 2004-12-21T16:54:05Z
modified: 2021-11-10T21:51:27Z
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rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Sycon Risso, 1827
class: Calcarea
family: Syconidae
genus: Sycon
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Risso, A. (1827). Histoire Naturelle des Principales Productions de l'Europe Méridionale et Particulièrement de Celles des Environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Tome V. Paris: F.-G. Levrault. i-viii + 1-403 pp., [pls. 1-10], figs. 1-62.
name published in: Agassiz, L. (1846). Nomenclatoris Zoologici Index Universalis, continens nomina systematica classium, ordinum, familiarum et generum animalium omnium, tam viventium quam fossilium, secundum ordinem alphabeticum unicum disposita, adjectis homonymus plantarum nec non variis adnotationibus et emendationibus. i-x, 1-1135. Soloduri. : Sumptibus Jent et Gassman.
name published in: Bowerbank, J.S. (1845). Description of a new genus of Calcareous Sponge. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 15 (99): 297-300 ,pl. XVII.
name published in: Gray, S.F. (1821). A natural arrangement of British Plants. Volume I. Baldwin, London: i-xxvii, 1-821, 21 pls.
name published in: Haeckel, E. (1872). Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. G. Reimer:Berlin. (1: 1-484) 2: 1-418 (3: pls 1-60).
name published in: Jenkin, C.F. (1908). Porifera. III. Calcarea. National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904. Natural History, Zoology. 4: 1-49, pls XXVII-XXXVIII.
name published in: Lendenfeld, R. von. (1885). The Homocoela hitherto described from Australia and the new family Homodermidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 9: 896-907.
name published in: Schmidt, O. (1868). Die Spongien der Küste von Algier. Mit Nachträgen zu den Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres (Drittes Supplement). (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-iv, 1-44, pls I-V.
name published in year: 1827
name published in year: 1846
name published in year: 1845
name published in year: 1821
name published in year: 1872
name published in year: 1908
name published in year: 1885
name published in year: 1868
order: Leucosolenida
parent name usage ID: 1447711
phylum: Porifera
scientific name authorship: Risso, 1827
taxon rank: Genus
taxonomic status: accepted