World Porifera Database - Species - Tuba digitalis (Lamarck, 1814)

WoRMS name details

Tuba digitalis (Lamarck, 1814)

AphiaID

718933 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:718933)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (genus transfer)

Accepted name

Niphates digitalis (Lamarck, 1814)

Rank

Species

Parent

Tuba Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 accepted as Callyspongia (Cladochalina) Schmidt, 1870

Original name

Spongia digitalis Lamarck, 1814

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Variety Tuba digitalis var. villosa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 accepted as Niphates digitalis (Lamarck, 1814) (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Spongia digitalis Lamarck, 1814) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1814 [1813]). Sur les polypiers empâtés. Annales du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle. 20: 294-312; 370-386; 432-458.
page(s): 436 [details]

Taxonomic 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.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Tuba digitalis (Lamarck, 1814). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=718933 on 2025-04-30

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2013-02-11 14:24:35Z

created

van Soest, Rob W.M.

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Nomenclature

original description (of Spongia digitalis Lamarck, 1814) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1814 [1813]). Sur les polypiers empâtés. Annales du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle. 20: 294-312; 370-386; 432-458.
page(s): 436 [details]

new combination reference Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem. 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
page(s): 49; pl VIII fig 2 [details]

Other

additional source Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. (1983). Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam. 9 (21): 189-205.
page(s): 194 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (5 records)