World Porifera Database - Species - Hippospongia galea (Lendenfeld, 1886)

WoRMS taxon details

Hippospongia galea (Lendenfeld, 1886)

AphiaID

165106 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165106)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Hippospongia Schulze, 1879

Original name

Euspongia galea Lendenfeld, 1886

Synonymised names

Euspongia galea Lendenfeld, 1886 · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Silicifibris galea (Lendenfeld, 1886) · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Spongia officinalis var. galea (Lendenfeld, 1886) · unaccepted

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Euspongia galea Lendenfeld, 1886) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1886 [1885]). A Monograph of the Australian Sponges. Part VI. The Genus Euspongia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 10 (3): 481-553, pls 36-38.
page(s): 543-544 [details]

Type data

Lectotype (of Euspongia galea Lendenfeld, 1886) BMNH...

Lectotype (of Euspongia galea Lendenfeld, 1886) BMNH 1886.8.27.303, geounit Bonaparte Coast [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. Hippospongia galea (Lendenfeld, 1886). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=165106 on 2025-05-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-07-10 18:05:41Z

created

db_admin

2009-07-03 13:06:28Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Euspongia galea Lendenfeld, 1886) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1886 [1885]). A Monograph of the Australian Sponges. Part VI. The Genus Euspongia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 10 (3): 481-553, pls 36-38.
page(s): 543-544 [details]

basis of record Hooper, J.N.A.; Wiedenmayer, F. (1994). Porifera. In: Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 12. Melbourne, CSIRO. , available online at https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/PORIFERA/checklist
page(s): 383 [details]

basis of record Lendenfeld, R. von. (1888). Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sidney. (Taylor & Francis: London). i-xiv, 1-260, pls 1-12.
page(s): 141 [details]

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Lendenfeld, R. von. (1889). A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. (Trübner and Co.: London). iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.20735531;view=1up;seq=1
page(s): 309-310 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Lectotype (of Euspongia galea Lendenfeld, 1886) BMNH 1886.8.27.303, geounit Bonaparte Coast [details]

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Euspongia galea Lendenfeld, 1886)