WoRMS taxon details
Geodia barretti Bowerbank, 1858
134023 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134023)
accepted
Species
Cydonium barretti (Bowerbank, 1858) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Geodia simplicissima Burton, 1931 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
- Variety Geodia barretti var. divaricans Topsent, 1928 accepted as Geodia nodastrella Carter, 1876
- Variety Geodia barretti var. nodastrella Carter, 1876 accepted as Geodia nodastrella Carter, 1876 (reverted status)
- Variety Geodia barretti var. senegalensis Topsent, 1891 accepted as Geodia senegalensis Topsent, 1891 (elevation to species rank)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Bowerbank, J.S. (1858). On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part I. On the Spicula. <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.</em> 148(2): 279-332, pls XXII-XXVI.
page(s): 290, 291, 293, 307, pl XXIII figs 50, 51, 52, pl XXV fig 13 [details]
page(s): 290, 291, 293, 307, pl XXIII figs 50, 51, 52, pl XXV fig 13 [details]
Holotype BMNH 1877.5.21.1399, geounit Southern Norway
, Note Western Norway, South side of Vikna Island...
Holotype BMNH 1877.5.21.1399, geounit Southern Norway [details]
Type locality Western Norway, South side of Vikna Island (formerly called Vigten or Vikten Island), North Trøndelag, 183 m [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. Geodia barretti Bowerbank, 1858. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=134023 on 2025-05-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Bowerbank, J.S. (1858). On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part I. On the Spicula. <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.</em> 148(2): 279-332, pls XXII-XXVI.
page(s): 290, 291, 293, 307, pl XXIII figs 50, 51, 52, pl XXV fig 13 [details]
original description (of Geodia simplicissima Burton, 1931) 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): 2-4 [details]
basis of record Sollas, W.J. (1880). The sponge-fauna of Norway; a Report on the Rev. A.M. Norman's Collection of Sponges from the Norwegian Coast. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (5) 5(27): 130-144, pls VI-VII; 241-259, pls X-XII; (29) 396-409, pl. XVII.
page(s): 247-257 [details]
page(s): 290, 291, 293, 307, pl XXIII figs 50, 51, 52, pl XXV fig 13 [details]
original description (of Geodia simplicissima Burton, 1931) 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): 2-4 [details]
basis of record Sollas, W.J. (1880). The sponge-fauna of Norway; a Report on the Rev. A.M. Norman's Collection of Sponges from the Norwegian Coast. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (5) 5(27): 130-144, pls VI-VII; 241-259, pls X-XII; (29) 396-409, pl. XVII.
page(s): 247-257 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Cárdenas, P.; Rapp, H.T. (2013). Disrupted spiculogenesis in deep-water Geodiidae (Porifera, Demospongiae) growing in shallow waters. <em>Invertebrate Biology.</em> 132 (3): 173-194., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12027 [details] Available for editors 
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redescription Cárdenas, P.; Rapp, H.T.: Klitgaard, A.B.; Best, M.; Thollesson, M.; Tendal, O.S. (2013). Taxonomy, biogeography and DNA barcodes of <i>Geodia</i> species (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida) in the Atlantic boreo-arctic region. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 169, 251-311., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12056 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]redescription Cárdenas, P.; Rapp, H.T.: Klitgaard, A.B.; Best, M.; Thollesson, M.; Tendal, O.S. (2013). Taxonomy, biogeography and DNA barcodes of <i>Geodia</i> species (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida) in the Atlantic boreo-arctic region. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 169, 251-311., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12056 [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1885). The Sponges of the 'Willem Barents' Expedition 1880 and 1881. <em>Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde.</em> 12 (3): 1-47, pls I-V.
page(s): 10 [details]
additional source Voultsiadou, E.; Vafidis, D. (2004). Rare sponge (Porifera: Demospongiae) species from the Mediterranean Sea. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 84 (3): 593-598.
page(s): 594; note: Misapplication: This record is believed to be Geodia conchilega, new identification by Cárdenas et al. (2013). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ferrer Hernández, F. (1918). Esponjas del litoral de Asturias. <em>Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Serie Zoologia.</em> 36: 1-39.
page(s): 18 [details]
additional source Burton, M. (1930). Norwegian Sponges from the Norman Collection. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1930 (2): 487-546, pls I-II.
page(s): 489 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Fristedt, K. (1887). Sponges from the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and the Behring Sea. <em>Vega-Expeditionens Vetenskap. Iakttagelser (Nordenskiöld) 4.</em> 401-471, pls 22-31.
page(s): 463; note: Species name misspelled as baretti [details]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, <b><i>in</i></b>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification</i>. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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): 73 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Pansini, M.; Uriz, M.J. (1994). Spongiaires bathyaux de la mer d'Alboran et du golfe ibéro-marocain. <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 160: 1-174., available online at http://bibliotheques.mnhn.fr/EXPLOITATION/infodoc/ged/viewportalpublished.ashx?eid=IFD_FICJOINT_MNHN_MMNHN_S000_1994_T160_N000_1
page(s): 38-39; fig 17 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Cárdenas, P.; Rapp, H.T. (2015). Demosponges from the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge shed more light on the diversity and biogeography of North Atlantic deep-sea sponges. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 95(7), 1475-1516., available online at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9887026&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0025315415000983
page(s): 1480 [details]
additional source Boavida, J.; Paulo, D.; Aurelle, D.; Arnaud-Haond, S.; Marschal, C.; Reed, J.; Gonçalves, J. M. S.; Serrão, E. A. (2016). A Well-Kept Treasure at Depth: Precious Red Coral Rediscovered in Atlantic Deep Coral Gardens (SW Portugal) after 300 Years. <em>PLOS ONE.</em> 11(1): e0147228., available online at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147228
note: Misapplication: Specimens identified as "cf. Geodia barretti". In fact, these specimens are Petrosia sp. (new identification by Paco Cárdenas, March 2016). [details]
additional source Cárdenas, P.; Moore, J.A. (2019). First records of <i>Geodia</i> demosponges from the New England seamounts, an opportunity to test the use of DNA mini-barcodes on museum specimens. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 49 (1): 163-174., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12526-017-0775-3
note: Only one sample was studied. A few morphological differences were noted with a typical Geodia barretti. [details]
additional source Solórzano, M.R. (1990). Poríferos del litoral gallego: estudio faunístico, distribución e inventario. <em>Phd Thesis Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela.</em> 1036 pp.
page(s): 227-229; Lám. 5b [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Dinn, C.; Leys, S.P. (2018). Field Guide to sponges of Eastern Canadian Arctic. <em>Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, T6G 2E9.</em> 1-102.
page(s): 81 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Periasamy, R.; Cárdenas, P.; Kurian, P.J.; Ingole, B.; Samaai, T. (2023). Is the North Atlantic <i>Geodia barretti</i> (Porifera, Tetractinellida, Geodiidae) present on the Southwest Indian Ridge?. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5380(5): 461-474., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5380.5.3
note: Identification as Geodia cf. barretti. [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 10 [details]
additional source Voultsiadou, E.; Vafidis, D. (2004). Rare sponge (Porifera: Demospongiae) species from the Mediterranean Sea. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 84 (3): 593-598.
page(s): 594; note: Misapplication: This record is believed to be Geodia conchilega, new identification by Cárdenas et al. (2013). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Ferrer Hernández, F. (1918). Esponjas del litoral de Asturias. <em>Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Serie Zoologia.</em> 36: 1-39.
page(s): 18 [details]
additional source Burton, M. (1930). Norwegian Sponges from the Norman Collection. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1930 (2): 487-546, pls I-II.
page(s): 489 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Fristedt, K. (1887). Sponges from the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and the Behring Sea. <em>Vega-Expeditionens Vetenskap. Iakttagelser (Nordenskiöld) 4.</em> 401-471, pls 22-31.
page(s): 463; note: Species name misspelled as baretti [details]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, <b><i>in</i></b>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification</i>. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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): 73 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Pansini, M.; Uriz, M.J. (1994). Spongiaires bathyaux de la mer d'Alboran et du golfe ibéro-marocain. <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 160: 1-174., available online at http://bibliotheques.mnhn.fr/EXPLOITATION/infodoc/ged/viewportalpublished.ashx?eid=IFD_FICJOINT_MNHN_MMNHN_S000_1994_T160_N000_1
page(s): 38-39; fig 17 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Cárdenas, P.; Rapp, H.T. (2015). Demosponges from the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge shed more light on the diversity and biogeography of North Atlantic deep-sea sponges. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 95(7), 1475-1516., available online at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9887026&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0025315415000983
page(s): 1480 [details]
additional source Boavida, J.; Paulo, D.; Aurelle, D.; Arnaud-Haond, S.; Marschal, C.; Reed, J.; Gonçalves, J. M. S.; Serrão, E. A. (2016). A Well-Kept Treasure at Depth: Precious Red Coral Rediscovered in Atlantic Deep Coral Gardens (SW Portugal) after 300 Years. <em>PLOS ONE.</em> 11(1): e0147228., available online at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147228
note: Misapplication: Specimens identified as "cf. Geodia barretti". In fact, these specimens are Petrosia sp. (new identification by Paco Cárdenas, March 2016). [details]
additional source Cárdenas, P.; Moore, J.A. (2019). First records of <i>Geodia</i> demosponges from the New England seamounts, an opportunity to test the use of DNA mini-barcodes on museum specimens. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 49 (1): 163-174., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12526-017-0775-3
note: Only one sample was studied. A few morphological differences were noted with a typical Geodia barretti. [details]
additional source Solórzano, M.R. (1990). Poríferos del litoral gallego: estudio faunístico, distribución e inventario. <em>Phd Thesis Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela.</em> 1036 pp.
page(s): 227-229; Lám. 5b [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Dinn, C.; Leys, S.P. (2018). Field Guide to sponges of Eastern Canadian Arctic. <em>Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, T6G 2E9.</em> 1-102.
page(s): 81 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Periasamy, R.; Cárdenas, P.; Kurian, P.J.; Ingole, B.; Samaai, T. (2023). Is the North Atlantic <i>Geodia barretti</i> (Porifera, Tetractinellida, Geodiidae) present on the Southwest Indian Ridge?. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5380(5): 461-474., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5380.5.3
note: Identification as Geodia cf. barretti. [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype BMNH 1877.5.21.1399, geounit Southern Norway [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Western Norway, South side of Vikna Island (formerly called Vigten or Vikten Island), North Trøndelag, 183 m [details]From regional or thematic species database
Habitat Eurybathic species found on infralittoral, circalittoral and bathyal bottoms. Bathymeric range 31-2000 m. Water temperature range: 0.4-15 degrees Celsius. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | Barrett's horny sponge | [details] |
| French | éponge de Barrett | [details] |
| Norwegian | kålrabisvamp | [details] |
| Swedish | futbollssvampdjur | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) (from synonym Geodia simplicissima Burton, 1931)
To Barcode of Life (18 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Cydonium barretti (Bowerbank, 1858))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Geodia simplicissima Burton, 1931)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Geodia barretti)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Geodia simplicissima) (from synonym Geodia simplicissima Burton, 1931)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Geodia simplicissima Burton, 1931)
To GenBank (4566 nucleotides; 61277 proteins)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Geodia simplicissima Burton, 1931)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Geodia barretti)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (1 record)
Wikipedia page
To Barcode of Life (18 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Cydonium barretti (Bowerbank, 1858))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Geodia simplicissima Burton, 1931)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Geodia barretti)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Geodia simplicissima) (from synonym Geodia simplicissima Burton, 1931)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Geodia simplicissima Burton, 1931)
To GenBank (4566 nucleotides; 61277 proteins)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Geodia simplicissima Burton, 1931)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Geodia barretti)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (1 record)
Wikipedia page
