Deep-Sea taxon details
Calyx nicaeensis (Risso, 1827)
166932 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:166932)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of ) 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. <em>Paris: F.-G. Levrault.</em> i-viii + 1-403 pp., [pls. 1-10], figs. 1-62., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39428259
page(s): 372 [details]
page(s): 372 [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. Calyx nicaeensis (Risso, 1827). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=166932 on 2026-10-09
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Calyx nicaeensis (Risso, 1827). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=166932 on 2026-10-09
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(of ) 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. <em>Paris: F.-G. Levrault.</em> i-viii + 1-403 pp., [pls. 1-10], figs. 1-62., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39428259
page(s): 372 [details]
additional source Ben Mustapha, K; Zarrouk, S.; Souissi, A.; El Abed, A. (2003). Diversité des Démosponges Tunisiennes. <em>Bulletin Institut national des Sciences et Technologies de la mer de Salammbô.</em> 30, 55-78.
page(s): 73 [details] Available for editors
additional source Bertolino, M.; Bo, M.; Canese, S.; Bavestrello, G.; Pansini, M. (2015). Deep sponge communities of the Gulf of St Eufemia (Calabria, southern Tyrrhenian Sea), with description of two new species. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 95 (07), 1371-1387., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315413001380
page(s): 1385 [details] Available for editors
additional source Boury-Esnault, N. (1971). Spongiaires de la zone rocheuse de Banyuls-sur-Mer. II. Systématique. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 22(2): 287-349.
page(s): 330 [details] Available for editors
additional source Costa, G.; Giussani, V.; Kletou, D.; Kleitou, P.; Pansini, M.; Setti, A.; Pronzato, R.; Bertolino, M. (2018). A first preliminary study of the shallow water sponge fauna from Cyprus Island (Eastern Mediterranean). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4450(5): 594., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4450.5.7
page(s): 595 [details] Available for editors
additional source Đorđević, N.; Petović, S. (2020). Diversity and distribution of class Demospongiae (phylum Porifera) in the Boka Kotorska bay. <em>Studia Marina.</em> 33 (2): 5-14., available online at http://www.studiamarina.ac.me/pdf/33/No2/Diversity%20and%20distribution%20of%20Demospongiae%20in%20BKB.pdf
page(s): 9 [details] Available for editors
additional source Idan, T.; Shefer, S.; Feldstein, T.; Ilan, M. (2021). New discoveries in Eastern Mediterranean mesophotic sponge grounds: updated checklist and description of three novel sponge species. <em>Mediterranean Marine Science.</em> 22 (2): 270-284., available online at https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.25837
page(s): 281 [details] Available for editors
additional source Idan, T.; Shefer, S.; Feldstein, T.; Yahel, R.; Huchon, D.; Ilan, M. (2018). Shedding light on an East-Mediterranean mesophotic sponge ground community and the regional sponge fauna. <em>Mediterranean marine science.</em> 19(1): 84-106., available online at https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/hcmr-med-mar-sc/article/view/13853
page(s): 9 [details] Available for editors
additional source Laubier, L. (1966). Le coralligène des Albères. Monographie biocénotique. The coralligenous of the Albères. Biocenotic monograph.]. <em>Annales de l'Institut Océanographique, Monaco, Nouvelle Série.</em> 43:137-316, figs. 1-12, plates I-VI, maps 1-2. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 205 [details] Available for editors
additional source Longo, C.; Cardone, F.; Pierri, C.; Mercurio, M.; Mucciolo, S.; Marzano, C.N.; Corriero, G. (2018). Sponges associated with coralligenous formations along the Apulian coasts. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 48(4): 2151-2163., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0744-x
page(s): 2156 [details] Available for editors
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1978). Report on a Collection of Sponges from the Bay of Naples. III Hadromerida, Axinellida, Poecilosclerida, Halichondrida, Haplosclerida. <em>Bollettino dei Musei e degli Istituti Biologici dell'Universitá di Genova.</em> 45: 7-89.
page(s): 80 [details]
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1983). A collection of Mediterranean Demospongiae (Porifera) with, in appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the Mediterranean Sea. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 84: 445-621.
page(s): 592 [details] Available for editors
additional source Sarà, M. (1958). Contributo all consoscenza dei Poriferi del Mar Ligure. <em>Annali di Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Genova.</em> 70(1): 207-244.
page(s): 238-239 [details] Available for editors
additional source Sarà, M. (1961). La fauna di Poriferi delle grotte delle isole Tremiti. Studio ecologico e sistematico. <em>Archivio zoologico italiano.</em> 46: 1-59,pls I-II.
page(s): 49 [details] Available for editors
additional source Topsent, E. (1925). Etude des Spongiaires du Golfe de Naples. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> 63(5): 623-725, pl. VIII.
page(s): 708-709 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1928). Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert ler de Monaco. [Atlantic and Mediterranean sponges from the cruises of Prince Albert I of Monaco]. <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 74:1-376, pls I-XI.
page(s): 324 [details]
additional source Topsent, E.; Olivier, L. (1943). Eponges observées dans les parages de Monaco (fin). <em>Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco.</em> 854: 1-12.
page(s): 2 [details]
additional source Trainito, E.; Baldacconi, R.; Macic, V. (2020). All-around rare and generalist: countercurrent signals from the updated distribution of <i>Calyx nicaeensis</i> (Risso, 1826) (Porifera, Demospongiae). <em>Studia Marina.</em> 33(1): 5-17., available online at http://10.5281/zenodo.3932083
page(s): 7 [details] Available for editors
additional source Vacelet, J. (1961). Spongiaires (Démosponges) de la région de Bonifacio (Corse). <em>Recueil des Travaux de la Station marine d'Endoume.</em> 22 (36): 21-45.
page(s): 43 [details]
additional source Vacelet, J. (1969). Eponges de la Roche du Large et de l'étage bathyal de Méditerranée (Récoltes de la soucoupe plongeante Cousteau et dragages). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (A, Zoologie).</em> 59(2): 145-219, pls I-IV.
page(s): 213 [details] Available for editors
additional source Vidal, A. (1967). Etude des fonds rocheux circalittoraux le long de la côte du Rousillon. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 18, 167-219.
page(s): 188 [details] Available for editors
additional source Voultsiadou, E. (2005). Sponge diversity in the Aegean Sea: Check list and new information. <em>Italian Zoology.</em> 72 (1): 53-64., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/11250000509356653
page(s): 55 [details] Available for editors
page(s): 372 [details]
additional source Ben Mustapha, K; Zarrouk, S.; Souissi, A.; El Abed, A. (2003). Diversité des Démosponges Tunisiennes. <em>Bulletin Institut national des Sciences et Technologies de la mer de Salammbô.</em> 30, 55-78.
page(s): 73 [details] Available for editors
additional source Bertolino, M.; Bo, M.; Canese, S.; Bavestrello, G.; Pansini, M. (2015). Deep sponge communities of the Gulf of St Eufemia (Calabria, southern Tyrrhenian Sea), with description of two new species. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 95 (07), 1371-1387., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315413001380
page(s): 1385 [details] Available for editors
additional source Boury-Esnault, N. (1971). Spongiaires de la zone rocheuse de Banyuls-sur-Mer. II. Systématique. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 22(2): 287-349.
page(s): 330 [details] Available for editors
additional source Costa, G.; Giussani, V.; Kletou, D.; Kleitou, P.; Pansini, M.; Setti, A.; Pronzato, R.; Bertolino, M. (2018). A first preliminary study of the shallow water sponge fauna from Cyprus Island (Eastern Mediterranean). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4450(5): 594., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4450.5.7
page(s): 595 [details] Available for editors
additional source Đorđević, N.; Petović, S. (2020). Diversity and distribution of class Demospongiae (phylum Porifera) in the Boka Kotorska bay. <em>Studia Marina.</em> 33 (2): 5-14., available online at http://www.studiamarina.ac.me/pdf/33/No2/Diversity%20and%20distribution%20of%20Demospongiae%20in%20BKB.pdf
page(s): 9 [details] Available for editors
additional source Idan, T.; Shefer, S.; Feldstein, T.; Ilan, M. (2021). New discoveries in Eastern Mediterranean mesophotic sponge grounds: updated checklist and description of three novel sponge species. <em>Mediterranean Marine Science.</em> 22 (2): 270-284., available online at https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.25837
page(s): 281 [details] Available for editors
additional source Idan, T.; Shefer, S.; Feldstein, T.; Yahel, R.; Huchon, D.; Ilan, M. (2018). Shedding light on an East-Mediterranean mesophotic sponge ground community and the regional sponge fauna. <em>Mediterranean marine science.</em> 19(1): 84-106., available online at https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/hcmr-med-mar-sc/article/view/13853
page(s): 9 [details] Available for editors
additional source Laubier, L. (1966). Le coralligène des Albères. Monographie biocénotique. The coralligenous of the Albères. Biocenotic monograph.]. <em>Annales de l'Institut Océanographique, Monaco, Nouvelle Série.</em> 43:137-316, figs. 1-12, plates I-VI, maps 1-2. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 205 [details] Available for editors
additional source Longo, C.; Cardone, F.; Pierri, C.; Mercurio, M.; Mucciolo, S.; Marzano, C.N.; Corriero, G. (2018). Sponges associated with coralligenous formations along the Apulian coasts. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 48(4): 2151-2163., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0744-x
page(s): 2156 [details] Available for editors
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1978). Report on a Collection of Sponges from the Bay of Naples. III Hadromerida, Axinellida, Poecilosclerida, Halichondrida, Haplosclerida. <em>Bollettino dei Musei e degli Istituti Biologici dell'Universitá di Genova.</em> 45: 7-89.
page(s): 80 [details]
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1983). A collection of Mediterranean Demospongiae (Porifera) with, in appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the Mediterranean Sea. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 84: 445-621.
page(s): 592 [details] Available for editors
additional source Sarà, M. (1958). Contributo all consoscenza dei Poriferi del Mar Ligure. <em>Annali di Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Genova.</em> 70(1): 207-244.
page(s): 238-239 [details] Available for editors
additional source Sarà, M. (1961). La fauna di Poriferi delle grotte delle isole Tremiti. Studio ecologico e sistematico. <em>Archivio zoologico italiano.</em> 46: 1-59,pls I-II.
page(s): 49 [details] Available for editors
additional source Topsent, E. (1925). Etude des Spongiaires du Golfe de Naples. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> 63(5): 623-725, pl. VIII.
page(s): 708-709 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1928). Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert ler de Monaco. [Atlantic and Mediterranean sponges from the cruises of Prince Albert I of Monaco]. <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 74:1-376, pls I-XI.
page(s): 324 [details]
additional source Topsent, E.; Olivier, L. (1943). Eponges observées dans les parages de Monaco (fin). <em>Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco.</em> 854: 1-12.
page(s): 2 [details]
additional source Trainito, E.; Baldacconi, R.; Macic, V. (2020). All-around rare and generalist: countercurrent signals from the updated distribution of <i>Calyx nicaeensis</i> (Risso, 1826) (Porifera, Demospongiae). <em>Studia Marina.</em> 33(1): 5-17., available online at http://10.5281/zenodo.3932083
page(s): 7 [details] Available for editors
additional source Vacelet, J. (1961). Spongiaires (Démosponges) de la région de Bonifacio (Corse). <em>Recueil des Travaux de la Station marine d'Endoume.</em> 22 (36): 21-45.
page(s): 43 [details]
additional source Vacelet, J. (1969). Eponges de la Roche du Large et de l'étage bathyal de Méditerranée (Récoltes de la soucoupe plongeante Cousteau et dragages). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (A, Zoologie).</em> 59(2): 145-219, pls I-IV.
page(s): 213 [details] Available for editors
additional source Vidal, A. (1967). Etude des fonds rocheux circalittoraux le long de la côte du Rousillon. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 18, 167-219.
page(s): 188 [details] Available for editors
additional source Voultsiadou, E. (2005). Sponge diversity in the Aegean Sea: Check list and new information. <em>Italian Zoology.</em> 72 (1): 53-64., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/11250000509356653
page(s): 55 [details] Available for editors
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