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Amphilectus fucorum (Esper, 1794)
150225 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:150225)
accepted
Species
Spongia fucorum Esper, 1794 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Spongia fucorum Esper, 1794) Esper, E.J.C. (1794). Die Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet, nebst Beschreibungen. Zweyter Theil. (Raspe: Nürnberg): 1-303. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50841660
page(s): 278-280, pl XLIX [details]
page(s): 278-280, pl XLIX [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. (2025). World Porifera Database. Amphilectus fucorum (Esper, 1794). Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010 onwards) Belgian Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=150225 on 2026-09-17
VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010 onwards). Belgian Register of Marine Species. Amphilectus fucorum (Esper, 1794). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=150225 on 2026-09-17
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(of Spongia fucorum Esper, 1794) Esper, E.J.C. (1794). Die Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet, nebst Beschreibungen. Zweyter Theil. (Raspe: Nürnberg): 1-303. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50841660
page(s): 278-280, pl XLIX [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Ackers, R.G.; Moss, D.; Picton, B.E. (1992). Sponges of the British Isles (‘Sponges V'). <em>A Colour Guide and Working Document. Marine Conservation Society.</em> 1-175.
page(s): 116-118 [details]
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002 [2004]). Family Esperiopsidae Hentschel, 1923. Pp. 656-664. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002). Family Esperiopsidae Hentschel, 1923. Pp. 656-664. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version)'. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_71 [details] Available for editors
additional source Alander, H. (1942). Sponges from the Swedish west-coast and adjacent waters. <em>Ph.D. Thesis. (University of Lund, H. Struves: Gøteborg).</em> Pp. 1-95, 15 pls.
page(s): 64 [details] Available for editors
additional source Burton, M. (1930). Report on a collection of sponges from South Georgia and from Campbell Island, South Pacific, obtained by Dr Kohl-Larsen. <em>Senckenbergiana.</em> 12: 331-335.
page(s): 332; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
additional source Burton, M. (1931). The Folden Fiord. Report on the sponges collected by Mr. Soot-Ryven in the Folden Fiord in the year 1923. <em>Tromsø Museum Skrifter.</em> 1 (13): 1-8.
page(s): 4 [details]
additional source Burton, M. (1932). Sponges. <em>Discovery Reports.</em> 6: 237-392, pls 48-57.
page(s): 289-292; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
additional source Burton, M. (1934). Sponges. Pp. 1-58, pls I-VIII. <em>In: Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901-03 under the Direction of Dr. Otto Nordenskjöld.</em> 3 (2). (Norstedt & Söner: Stockholm).
page(s): 23-24; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
additional source Burton, M. (1940). Las Esponjas marinas del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales. (Parte 1). <em>Anales del Museo argentino de ciencias naturales ‘Bernardino Rivadavia'.</em> 40 (6): 95-121, pls I-VIII.
page(s): 105; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source Desqueyroux, R. (1972). Demospongiae (Porifera) de la Costa de Chile. <em>Gayana.</em> 20: 3-71.
page(s): 35-36; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
additional source Desqueyroux, R. (1976). Démosponges signalées pour la Région des Canaux du Chili. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 17 (1): 93-109.
page(s): 101; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
additional source Evcen, A.; Özalp, H.B. (2026). New records of sponges (Phylum Porifera) for the Turkish straits system. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 66: 195-203., available online at https://doi.org/10.21411/CBM.A.50CD9DBB
page(s): 200; note: Misapplication. [details] Available for editors
additional source Harms, J. (1993). Check list of species (algae, invertebrates and vertebrates) found in the vicinity of the island of Helgoland (North Sea, German Bight): a review of recent records. <em>Helgoländer Meeresunters.</em> 47: 1-34. [p. 25, tab. 3: Gastrosaccus spinifer, Mysis relicta, Praunus inermis, Schistomysis kervillei, Schistomysis spiritus. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02366182 [details]
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors
additional source Hiscock, K.; Stone, S.M.K.; George, J.D. (1984). The marine fauna of Lundy. Porifera (sponges): a preliminary study. <em>Report Lundy Field Society.</em> 34: 16-35.
page(s): 26 [details]
additional source Koltun, V.M. (1964). Sponges of the Antarctic. 1 Tetraxonida and Cornacuspongida. Pp. 6-133, 443-448. <em>In: Pavlovskii, E.P., Andriyashev,A.P. & Ushakov, P.V. (Eds), Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958).</em> Akademya Nauk SSSR [English translation,1966, Israel Program for Scientific Translation].
page(s): 38-39 (=39); note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
additional source Le Mao, P.; Godet, L.; Fournier, J.; Desroy, D.; Gentil, F.; Thiébaud, E.; Poutinet, L.; Cabioch, L: Retière, C.; Chambers, P. (2020). Atlas de la faune marine invertébrée du golfe Normano-Breton Volume 5 - Autres espèces -. Éditions de la Station biologique de Roscoff, ISBN 82951802971. 308 pp. , available online at http://hal-02490465
page(s): 29 [details] Available for editors
additional source Lévi, C.; Vacelet, J. (1958). Éponges récoltées dans l'Atlantique oriental par le 'Président Théodore-Tissier' (1955-1956). <em>Revue des Travaux de l'Institut des Pêches maritimes 22 (2).</em> 225-246.
page(s): 243; fig 31 [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS)
note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
additional source Santín, A.; Grinyó, J.; Ambroso, S.; Uriz, M.-J.; Gori, A.; Dominguez-Carrió, C.; Gili, J.-M. (2018). Sponge assemblages on the deep Mediterranean continental shelf and slope (Menorca Channel, Western Mediterranean Sea). <em>Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers.</em> 131: 75-86., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2017.11.003
page(s): Supplementary data [details] Available for editors
additional source Schejter, L.; Calcinai, B.; Cerrano, C.; Bertolino, M.; Pansini, M.; Giberto, D.; Bremec, C. (2006). Porifera from the Argentine Sea: Diversity in Patagonian scallop beds. <em>Italian Journal of Zoology.</em> 73(4): 373-385., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/11250000600986172
page(s): 382 [details] Available for editors
additional source Sim, C.J. (1981). A systematic study on the marine sponges of Korea 1. Ceractinomorpha and Tetractinomorpha. <em>Soong Jun University Essays and Papers.</em> 11: 83-105.
page(s): 87; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
additional source Stone, S.M.: Boardley. E.; Gill, M. (1987). Field characteristics of some conspicuous sublittoral sponges from Roaringwater Bay, County Cork, Ireland. <i>In</i>: Jones WC (ed) European contributions to the taxonomy of sponges. <em>Publications of the Sherkin Island Marine Station.</em> 1: 130-140. [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1932). Remarques sur des Eponges de l'estuaire de la Rance. <em>Bulletin du Laboratoire maritime du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Saint-Servan.</em> 8: 1-7.
page(s): 3 [details]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M.; Beglinger, E.J.; de Voogd, N.J. (2012). Sponges of the family Esperiopsidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from Northwest Africa, with the descriptions of four new species. <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 18: 1-21., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2012.18
page(s): 9-11; fig 5; note: in the text Amphilectus cf. fucorum [details]
new combination reference Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1880). The Sponges of the Leyden Museum. 1. The family of the Desmacidinae. <em>Notes from the Leyden Museum.</em> 2: 99-164. [details]
biology source Morrow, C.; Picton, B.; Erpenbeck, D.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Maggs, C.; Allcock, A. (2012). Congruence between nuclear and mitochondrial genes in Demospongiae: A new hypothesis for relationships within the G4 clade (Porifera: Demospongiae). <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 62(1): 174-190., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2011.09.016
page(s): 176 [details] Available for editors
page(s): 278-280, pl XLIX [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Ackers, R.G.; Moss, D.; Picton, B.E. (1992). Sponges of the British Isles (‘Sponges V'). <em>A Colour Guide and Working Document. Marine Conservation Society.</em> 1-175.
page(s): 116-118 [details]
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002 [2004]). Family Esperiopsidae Hentschel, 1923. Pp. 656-664. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002). Family Esperiopsidae Hentschel, 1923. Pp. 656-664. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version)'. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_71 [details] Available for editors
additional source Alander, H. (1942). Sponges from the Swedish west-coast and adjacent waters. <em>Ph.D. Thesis. (University of Lund, H. Struves: Gøteborg).</em> Pp. 1-95, 15 pls.
page(s): 64 [details] Available for editors
additional source Burton, M. (1930). Report on a collection of sponges from South Georgia and from Campbell Island, South Pacific, obtained by Dr Kohl-Larsen. <em>Senckenbergiana.</em> 12: 331-335.
page(s): 332; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
additional source Burton, M. (1931). The Folden Fiord. Report on the sponges collected by Mr. Soot-Ryven in the Folden Fiord in the year 1923. <em>Tromsø Museum Skrifter.</em> 1 (13): 1-8.
page(s): 4 [details]
additional source Burton, M. (1932). Sponges. <em>Discovery Reports.</em> 6: 237-392, pls 48-57.
page(s): 289-292; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
additional source Burton, M. (1934). Sponges. Pp. 1-58, pls I-VIII. <em>In: Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901-03 under the Direction of Dr. Otto Nordenskjöld.</em> 3 (2). (Norstedt & Söner: Stockholm).
page(s): 23-24; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
additional source Burton, M. (1940). Las Esponjas marinas del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales. (Parte 1). <em>Anales del Museo argentino de ciencias naturales ‘Bernardino Rivadavia'.</em> 40 (6): 95-121, pls I-VIII.
page(s): 105; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source Desqueyroux, R. (1972). Demospongiae (Porifera) de la Costa de Chile. <em>Gayana.</em> 20: 3-71.
page(s): 35-36; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
additional source Desqueyroux, R. (1976). Démosponges signalées pour la Région des Canaux du Chili. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 17 (1): 93-109.
page(s): 101; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
additional source Evcen, A.; Özalp, H.B. (2026). New records of sponges (Phylum Porifera) for the Turkish straits system. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 66: 195-203., available online at https://doi.org/10.21411/CBM.A.50CD9DBB
page(s): 200; note: Misapplication. [details] Available for editors
additional source Harms, J. (1993). Check list of species (algae, invertebrates and vertebrates) found in the vicinity of the island of Helgoland (North Sea, German Bight): a review of recent records. <em>Helgoländer Meeresunters.</em> 47: 1-34. [p. 25, tab. 3: Gastrosaccus spinifer, Mysis relicta, Praunus inermis, Schistomysis kervillei, Schistomysis spiritus. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02366182 [details]
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors
additional source Hiscock, K.; Stone, S.M.K.; George, J.D. (1984). The marine fauna of Lundy. Porifera (sponges): a preliminary study. <em>Report Lundy Field Society.</em> 34: 16-35.
page(s): 26 [details]
additional source Koltun, V.M. (1964). Sponges of the Antarctic. 1 Tetraxonida and Cornacuspongida. Pp. 6-133, 443-448. <em>In: Pavlovskii, E.P., Andriyashev,A.P. & Ushakov, P.V. (Eds), Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958).</em> Akademya Nauk SSSR [English translation,1966, Israel Program for Scientific Translation].
page(s): 38-39 (=39); note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
additional source Le Mao, P.; Godet, L.; Fournier, J.; Desroy, D.; Gentil, F.; Thiébaud, E.; Poutinet, L.; Cabioch, L: Retière, C.; Chambers, P. (2020). Atlas de la faune marine invertébrée du golfe Normano-Breton Volume 5 - Autres espèces -. Éditions de la Station biologique de Roscoff, ISBN 82951802971. 308 pp. , available online at http://hal-02490465
page(s): 29 [details] Available for editors
additional source Lévi, C.; Vacelet, J. (1958). Éponges récoltées dans l'Atlantique oriental par le 'Président Théodore-Tissier' (1955-1956). <em>Revue des Travaux de l'Institut des Pêches maritimes 22 (2).</em> 225-246.
page(s): 243; fig 31 [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS)
note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
additional source Santín, A.; Grinyó, J.; Ambroso, S.; Uriz, M.-J.; Gori, A.; Dominguez-Carrió, C.; Gili, J.-M. (2018). Sponge assemblages on the deep Mediterranean continental shelf and slope (Menorca Channel, Western Mediterranean Sea). <em>Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers.</em> 131: 75-86., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2017.11.003
page(s): Supplementary data [details] Available for editors
additional source Schejter, L.; Calcinai, B.; Cerrano, C.; Bertolino, M.; Pansini, M.; Giberto, D.; Bremec, C. (2006). Porifera from the Argentine Sea: Diversity in Patagonian scallop beds. <em>Italian Journal of Zoology.</em> 73(4): 373-385., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/11250000600986172
page(s): 382 [details] Available for editors
additional source Sim, C.J. (1981). A systematic study on the marine sponges of Korea 1. Ceractinomorpha and Tetractinomorpha. <em>Soong Jun University Essays and Papers.</em> 11: 83-105.
page(s): 87; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
additional source Stone, S.M.: Boardley. E.; Gill, M. (1987). Field characteristics of some conspicuous sublittoral sponges from Roaringwater Bay, County Cork, Ireland. <i>In</i>: Jones WC (ed) European contributions to the taxonomy of sponges. <em>Publications of the Sherkin Island Marine Station.</em> 1: 130-140. [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1932). Remarques sur des Eponges de l'estuaire de la Rance. <em>Bulletin du Laboratoire maritime du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Saint-Servan.</em> 8: 1-7.
page(s): 3 [details]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M.; Beglinger, E.J.; de Voogd, N.J. (2012). Sponges of the family Esperiopsidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from Northwest Africa, with the descriptions of four new species. <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 18: 1-21., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2012.18
page(s): 9-11; fig 5; note: in the text Amphilectus cf. fucorum [details]
new combination reference Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1880). The Sponges of the Leyden Museum. 1. The family of the Desmacidinae. <em>Notes from the Leyden Museum.</em> 2: 99-164. [details]
biology source Morrow, C.; Picton, B.; Erpenbeck, D.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Maggs, C.; Allcock, A. (2012). Congruence between nuclear and mitochondrial genes in Demospongiae: A new hypothesis for relationships within the G4 clade (Porifera: Demospongiae). <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 62(1): 174-190., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2011.09.016
page(s): 176 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | shredded carrot spongecarrot-sponge | [details] |
| French | éponge mousse de carotte | [details] |
| German | Tang-SchwammTangschwamm | [details] |
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Spongia fucorum Esper, 1794)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Amphilectus fucorum)
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Spongia fucorum Esper, 1794)
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (7 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 000463.PR)
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Spongia fucorum Esper, 1794)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Amphilectus fucorum)
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Spongia fucorum Esper, 1794)
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (7 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 000463.PR)
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