World Porifera Database - Species - Esperella sordida (Bowerbank, 1874)

WoRMS name details

Esperella sordida (Bowerbank, 1874)

AphiaID

236480 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:236480)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Accepted name

Mycale (Carmia) subclavata (Bowerbank, 1866)

Rank

Species

Parent

Esperella Vosmaer, 1887 accepted as Mycale (Aegogropila) Gray, 1867

Original name

Raphiodesma sordida Bowerbank, 1874

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Variety Esperella sordida var. orientalis Topsent, 1897 accepted as Mycale (Aegogropila) orientalis (Topsent, 1897) (genus transfer and status change)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Raphiodesma sordida Bowerbank, 1874) Bowerbank, J.S. (1874). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1871265
page(s): 224, Pl. LXXVI 13-19; 230-234; 354; note: illustration of the type-specimen [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. Esperella sordida (Bowerbank, 1874). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=236480 on 2025-05-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2007-01-22 07:42:38Z

created

de Haas, Henk

2010-07-14 07:40:33Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Raphiodesma sordida Bowerbank, 1874) Bowerbank, J.S. (1874). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1871265
page(s): 224, Pl. LXXVI 13-19; 230-234; 354; note: illustration of the type-specimen [details]

basis of record Hanitsch, R. (1891). Notes on some sponges collected by Professor Herdman off the west coast of Ireland from the 'Argo'. Transactions of the Biological Society of Liverpool. 5: 213-222.
page(s): 214-217 [details]

Other

additional source Delage, Y. (1892). Embryogénie des éponges. Développement post-larvaire des éponges siliceuses et fibreuses marines et d'eau douce. Archives de Zoologie générale et experimentale. (2) 10: 345-498. [details]

additional source Topsent, E. (1890). Éponges de la Manche. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France. 3 (1): 195-205.
page(s): 201 [details]

additional source Topsent, E. (1891). Spongaires des côtes océaniques de France. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 6: 125-129.
page(s): 127 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications)