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Spongia (Spongia) officinalis Linnaeus, 1759

165220  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165220)

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Euspongia officinalis (Linnaeus, 1759) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Euspongia officinalis var. exigua Schulze, 1879 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759 · alternative representation (subgenus assignment)
Spongia officinalis mediterranea Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Spongia officinalis var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Spongia officinalis var. exigua (Schulze, 1879) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spongia quarnerensis Schmidt, 1862 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

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(of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Linnaeus, C. (1759). Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus II. Editio decima, reformata. - pp. [1-4], 825-1384. Holmiæ. (L. Salvii)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/587267
page(s): 1348 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Neotype  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) BMNH...  
Neotype (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) BMNH 1883.12.4.28 [details]
Neotype (of Euspongia officinalis var. adriatica (Schmidt, 1862)) BMNH 1883.12.4.28, geounit Adriatic Sea [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. (2024). World Porifera Database. Spongia (Spongia) officinalis Linnaeus, 1759. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=165220 on 2024-04-19
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original description  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Linnaeus, C. (1759). Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus II. Editio decima, reformata. - pp. [1-4], 825-1384. Holmiæ. (L. Salvii)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/587267
page(s): 1348 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862) Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 20-22; pl II fig 1 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Spongia quarnerensis Schmidt, 1862) Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 22-23; pl II fig 2 & pl III fig 1 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Euspongia officinalis var. exigua Schulze, 1879) Schulze, F.E. (1879). Untersuchungen über den Bau und die Entwicklung der Spongien. Siebente Mittheilung. Die Familie der Spongidae. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 32: 593-660, pls XXXIV-XXXVIII.
page(s): 620; pl XXXIV fig 5-7; pl XXXV fig 6-7 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Spongia officinalis mediterranea Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 511 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Spongia officinalis mediterranea var. tubuliformis Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII. [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Spongia officinalis mediterranea var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862) Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 20 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

basis of record Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Topaloğlu, B.; Evcen, A.; Cinar, M. E. (2016). Sponge fauna in the Sea of Marmara. <em>Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 16(1): 51-59., available online at https://doi.org/10.4194/1303-2712-v16_1_06
page(s): 53 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Costa, G.; Betti, F.; Nepote, E.; Cattaneo-Vietti, R.; Pansini, M.; Bavestrello, G.; Bertolino, M. (2018). Sponge community variations within two semi-submerged caves of the Ligurian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) over a half-century time span. <em>The European Zoological Journal.</em> 85 (1): 382-392., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2018.1525439
page(s): 386 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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): 2158 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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): 10 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Roveta, C.; Marrocco, T.; Calcinai, B.; Pulido Mantas, T.; Pica, D.; Valisano, L.; Puce, S. (2022). Unravelling the sponge diversity of the Tuscan Archipelago National Park (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy). <em>The European Zoological Journal.</em> 89(1): 310-323., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2022.2042406
page(s): 314 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Krikech, I.; Le Pennec, G.; Ezziyyani, M. (2022). Preliminary study of the shallow water sponges (Demospongiae) from the north-central Moroccan Mediterranean coast. <em>AACL Bioflux.</em> 15 (1): 305-313.
page(s): Table 2 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Eckhel, G. von. (1873). Der Badeschwamm in Rücksicht auf die Art seiner Gewinnung, geographische Verbreitung und locale Variation. <em>Triest, Buchdrückerei de Oesterreichischen Lloyd.</em> 1-42, 2 pls, 1 map. [details]  OpenAccess publication 

status source Agne, S.; Ekins, M.; Galitz, A.; Hofreiter, M.; Preick, M.; Straube, N.; Wörheide, G.; Erpenbeck, D. (2022). Keratose sponge MuseOMICS: setting reference points in dictyoceratid demosponge phylogeny. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5195(3): 296-300., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5195.3.9
page(s): 297 & 298 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record  (of Euspongia officinalis (Linnaeus, 1759)) 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): 262-266 [details]   

basis of record  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R. (2002 [2004]]). Family Spongiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 1051-1060. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) <i>Systema Porifera - A guide to the classification of sponges</i>. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R. (2002). Family Spongiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 1051-1060. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) <i>Systema Porifera - A guide to the classification of sponges</i>. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details]  Full text PDF 

basis of record  (of Spongia officinalis mediterranea var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2024). Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5398(1): 1-122., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1
page(s): 27 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record  (of Spongia officinalis var. exigua (Schulze, 1879)) Lévi, C. (1965). Spongiaires récoltés par l'expédition israélienne dans le sud de la Mer Rouge en 1962. <i>In</i>: Israel South Red Sea Expedition, 1962, Report 13. <em>Sea Fisheries Research Station Haifa Bulletin.</em> 39, 3-27.
page(s): 22-23 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

basis of record  (of Spongia officinalis mediterranea var. tubuliformis Hyatt, 1877) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2024). Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5398(1): 1-122., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1
page(s): 27 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record  (of Euspongia officinalis var. exigua Schulze, 1879) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2024). Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5398(1): 1-122., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1
page(s): 16 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record  (of Euspongia officinalis var. adriatica (Schmidt, 1862)) Topsent, E. (1901). Considérations sur la faune des spongiaires des côtes d'Algérie. Eponges de La Calle. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> (3) 9: 327-370, pls XIII-XIV.
page(s): 359 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Euspongia officinalis var. adriatica (Schmidt, 1862)) 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): 715 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Euspongia officinalis var. adriatica (Schmidt, 1862)) Dragnewitsch, P. 1905. Spongien von Singapore. Inaugural-Dissertation der Hohen philosphischen Fakultät der Universität Bern. (Neukomm & Zimmermann, Bern) Pp. 1-36.
page(s): 28; note: Misapplication. [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862) 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]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Euspongia officinalis var. adriatica (Schmidt, 1862)) 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): 267-268 [details]   

additional source  (of Euspongia officinalis var. adriatica (Schmidt, 1862)) Schulze, F.E. (1879). Untersuchungen über den Bau und die Entwicklung der Spongien. Siebente Mittheilung. Die Familie der Spongidae. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 32: 593-660, pls XXXIV-XXXVIII.
page(s): 619; pl XXXIV fig 1-3 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Euspongia adriatica (Schmidt, 1862)) Marion, A.-F. (1876 [volume of 1875]). Dragages profonds au large de Marseille. (Juillet-Octobre 1875). Note préliminaire. <em>Revue des Sciences Naturelles.</em> 4 (4): 469-477., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14526635
page(s): 474 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Corriero, G. (1989). The sponge fauna from the Stagnone di Marsala (Sicily): taxonomic and ecological observations. <em>Bolletino Museo Istituto Biologia Università Genova.</em> 53: 101-113.
page(s): 103 [details]   

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Rao, H.S. 1941. Indian and Ceylon sponges of the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm collected by K. Fristedt. Records of the Indian Museum 43: 417-469.
page(s): 454; note: Misapplication [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Müller, O. F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum: characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. <em>Typis Hallagerii, Havni, Copenhagen.</em> 282 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550
page(s): 256; note: Misapplication for Spongionella pulchella. [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) 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  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Carballo, J.L.; Garcia-Gómez, J.C. (1994). Esponjas del Estrecho de Gibraltar y áreas próximas, con nuevas aportaciones para la fauna Iberica [Porifera from the Straits of Gibraltar and nearby areas, new species of the Iberian fauna]. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 35(2): 193-211. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 196 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Lombas, I. (1982). Distribución, de esponjas esciafilas en la zona intermareal de Aramar (Luanco, Asturias). <em>Boletim de Ciencias Naturales IDEA.</em> 29: 37-50.
page(s): 46 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Wilkens, C.F. (1787). P.S. Pallas, Charakteristik der Thierpflanzen. Nach seinem Tode herausgegeben von J.F.W. Herbst. <em>Raspischen Buchhandlung, Nürnberg.</em> pp. 265 + 22 (unnumbered) + pls. XXVI.
page(s): 225 [details]   

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Olivi, G. (1792). Zoologia Adriatica, ossia catalogo ragionato degli animali del golfo e della lagune di Venezia. Bassano [G. Remondini e fl.]. [ix] + 334 + xxxii pp., 9 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/123881
page(s): 262 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) 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): 239; pl XI [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Pallas, P. S. (1766). Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succintas descriptiones, cum selectis auctorum synonymis. <em>[book].</em> pp. 451, Fransiscum Varrentrapp, Hagae., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6019361
page(s): 387 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Burton, M. (1932). Sponges. <em>Discovery Reports.</em> 6: 237-392, pls 48-57.
page(s): 340; note: misapplication [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Burton, M. (1959). Sponges. <em>In: Scientific Reports. John Murray Expedition 1933-34. 10(5). British Museum (Natural History): London.</em> Pp. 151-281., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49512735
page(s): 270; note: Misapplication [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Carter, H.J. (1876). Descriptions and Figures of Deep-Sea Sponges and their Spicules, from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S.‘Porcupine', chiefly in 1869 (concluded). <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (4) 18(105): 226-240; (106): 307-324; (107): 388-410;(108): 458-479, pls XII-XVI.
page(s): 231-232; note: Misapplication [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Ellis, J.; Solander, D. (1786). The Natural History of many curious and uncommon Zoophytes, collected from various parts of the Globe. Systematically arranged and described by the late Daniel Solander. 4.(Benjamin White & Son: London): 1-206, pls 1-63., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41943909
page(s): 183-184 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1948). The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. <em>Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation.</em> 3: 1-217.
page(s): 4 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Lévi, C. (1957). Spongiaires des côtes d'Israel. <em>Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel.</em> 6 B(3-4): 201-212.
page(s): 202 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Lévi, C. (1961). Spongiaires des Iles Philippines, principalement récoltées au voisinage de Zamboanga. <em>Philippine Journal of Science.</em> 88 (4): 509-533.
page(s): 529; note: Misapplication [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Poiret, J.-L. M. (1789). Voyage en Barbarie, ou Lettres écrites de l'Ancienne Numidie pendant les Années 1785 et 1786, avec un Essai sur l'Histoire naturelle de ce Pays. Deuxième Partie (<i>Alcyonium</i> & Porifera). pp 56-63.
page(s): 60 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Pulitzer-Finali, G.; Pronzato, R. (1976). Report on a Collection of Sponges from the Bay of Naples. II. Keratosa. <em>Pubblicazioni della Stazione zoologica di Napoli.</em> 40(1): 83-104.
page(s): 90 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Pulitzer-Finali, G.; Pronzato, R. (1981 [1980]). The Keratosa in a collection of Mediterranean sponges mainly from the Italian coasts. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 83: 127-158.
page(s): 137 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Rützler, K. (1965). Systematik und Ökologie der Poriferen aus Litoral-Schattengebieten der Nordadria. <em>Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere.</em> 55(1): 1-82.
page(s): 43-44 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Sarà, M. (1958). Studio sui Poriferi di una grotta di marea del Golfo di Napoli. <em>Archivo Zoologico Italiano.</em> 43: 203-281, pls I-II.
page(s): 273 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) 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): 55 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Vacelet, J. (1959). Répartition générale des éponges et systématique des éponges cornées de la région de Marseille et de quelques stations méditerranéennes. <em>Recueil des Travaux de la Station marine d'Endoume.</em> 16 (26): 39-101, pls 1-3.
page(s): 76 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Maldonado, M. (1992). Demosponges of the red coral bottoms from the Alboran Sea. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 26: 1131-1161. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 1135 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Esper, E.J.C. (1794). Die Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet, nebst Beschreibungen. Zweyter Theil. (Raspe: Nürnberg): 1-303. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50841660
page(s): 218-224 [details]   

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Burton, M. (1936). The fishery ground near Alexandria. IX. Sponges. <em>Notes and Memoirs of the Fisheries Research Directorate, Cairo.</em> 17: 1-28.
page(s): 24 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Rützler, K.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Piantoni, C. (2009). Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico. <i>in</i>: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A & M Press, College Station, Texas. 285–313.
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additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Pansini, M. (1987). Report on a collection of Demospongiae from soft bottoms of the Eastern Adriatic Sea. <i>In</i>: Jones WC (ed) European contributions to the taxonomy of sponges. <em>Publications of the Sherkin Island Marine Station.</em> 1, 41-53.
page(s): 51 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Cruz, T. (2002). Esponjas marinas de Canarias. <em>Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias.</em> S/C Tenerife. 260 pp. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Boddaert, P. 1768. Lyst der Plant-Dieren, p. (1-50) + 1-654, pls. 1-14. Van Paddenburg & Van Schoonhoven, Utrecht.
page(s): 437 [details]   

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Harmelin, J.-G.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Fichez, R.; Vacelet, J.; Zibrowius, H. (2003). Peuplement de la grotte sous-marine de l'ile de Bagaud (Parc national de Port-Cros, France, Méditerranée). <em>Rapport scientifique du Parc national de Port-Cros.</em> 19: 117-134., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicole_Boury-Esnault/publication/280131013_2003_-_Harmelin_JG_N_Boury-Esnault_R_Fichez_J_Vacelet_H_Zibrowius_Peuplement_de_la_grotte_sous-marine_de_Bagaud_Parc_national_de_Port-Cros_France_Mediterranee_Rapport_scientif
page(s): 128 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Labate, M. (1964). Poriferi di grotta superficiale del litorale adriatico pugliese. <em>Annali del Pontificio Istituto Scienze e Lettere S. Chiara, Napoli.</em> 14, 319-342.
page(s): 338 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Voultsiadou-Koukoura, E.; Koukouras, A. (1993). Contribution to the knowledge of Keratose sponges (Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida, Verongida: Demospongiae, Porifera) of the Aegean Sea. <em>Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin.</em> 69, 57-72.
page(s): 58-59 [details]   

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Vacelet, J. (1976). Inventaire des Spongiaires du Parc national de Port-Cros (Var). <em>Travaux scientifiques du Parc national de Port-Cros.</em> 2, 167-186.
page(s): 182; note: only 2 small specimens recorded in 1976 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Kefalas, E.; Castritsi-Catharios, I; Miliou, H. (2003). The impacts of scallop dredging on sponge assemblages in the Gulf of kalloni (Aegean Sea, northeastern Mediterranean). <em>ICES Journal of Marine Science.</em> 60, 402-10.
page(s): 406 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Topaloğlu, B. (2001). Sponge fauna in the littoral zone of the Marmara Sea. <em>Rapports et Procès Verbaux des Réunions de la Commission Internationale pour l'Exploration de la Mer Méditerranée,.</em> 36, 421.
page(s): 421 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Pansini, M.; Morri, C.; Bianchi, C.N. (2000). The sponge community of a subtidal area with hydrothermal vents: Milos island, Aegean Sea. <em>Estuarine Coastal Shelf Science.</em> 51, 627-635.
page(s): 630 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Corriero, G.; Pansini, M.; Sarà, M. (1984). Sui Poriferi della insenatura della Strea a Porto Cesareo (Lecce). <em>Thalassia Salentina.</em> 14, 1-10.
page(s): 8 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Gerovasileiou, V.; Voultsiadou, E. (2012). Marine Caves of the Mediterranean Sea: A Sponge Biodiversity Reservoir within a Biodiversity Hotspot. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 7(7): e39873., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039873
page(s): Table S1 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Manconi, R.; Cadeddu, B.; Ledda, F.; Pronzato, R. (2013). An overview of the Mediterranean cave-dwelling horny sponges (Porifera, Demospongiae). <em>ZooKeys.</em> 281: 1-68., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.281.4171
page(s): 42-43 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Burton, M. (1934). Notes on some marine Sponges from the Belgian Congo. <em>Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines.</em> 34 (4), 410-411.
note: Misapplication [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Karimi, E.; Ramos, M.; Gonçalves, J.M.S.; Xavier, J.R.; Reis, M.P.; Costa, R. (2017). Comparative Metagenomics Reveals the Distinctive Adaptive Features of the <i>Spongia officinalis</i> Endosymbiotic Consortium. <em>Frontiers in Microbiology.</em> 8 (2499): 1-16., available online at https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02499
page(s): 3 [details]   

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) 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): 1042-1046; Lám. 137 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Sitjà, C.; Maldonado, M.; Farias, C.; Rueda, J.L. (2019). Deep-water sponge fauna from the mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz (North Atlantic, Spain). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 99 (4): 807 - 831., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315418000589
page(s): SUP. MAT. appendix 1 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Díaz, H.; Bevilacqua, M.; Bone, D. (1985). Esponjas en manglares del Parque Nacional Morrocoy. <em>Fondo Editorial Acta Cientifica Venezolanos, Caracas.</em> Pp. 1-62.
page(s): 45; note: Misapplication: This is possibly Spongia obliqua[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Naveiro Millán, A. (2002). Poríferos de la costa da Arrábida (Portugal). Clase Demospongiae. <em>Tesina Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela.</em> 165 pp.
page(s): 143-144. Figura 67 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Vacelet, J. (1991). Statut des éponges commerciales en Méditerranée. pp. 35-42 <i>in</i>: Les espèces marines à protéger en Méditerranée. Boudouresque, C.-F., Avon, M., & Graves, V. (eds) Gis Posidonie publication, France.
page(s): 35 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Pansini, M.; Musso, B. (1991). Sponges from trawl-exploitable bottoms of the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas: distribution and ecology. <em>P.S.Z.N.I.: Marine Ecology.</em> 12 (4): 317-329.
page(s): 321 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Berthet, B.; Mouneyrac, C.; Pérez, T.; Amiard-Triquet, C. (2005). Metallothionein concentration in sponges (<i>Spongia officinalis</i>) as a biomarker of metal contamination. <em>Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part C.</em> 141(3): 306-313., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cca.2005.07.008 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862) Schmidt, O. (1864). Supplement der Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. <em>Enthaltend die Histologie und systematische Ergänzungen. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig).</em> i-vi: 1-48, pls 1-4.
page(s): 24-26 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Ed. 12. 1., Regnum Animale. 1 & 2. <em>Holmiae [Stockholm], Laurentii Salvii.</em> pp. 1-532 [1766] pp. 533-1327 [1767]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5
page(s): 1298 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) 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]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Bergquist, P.R. (1965). The Sponges of Micronesia, Part I. The Palau Archipelago. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 19 (2): 123-204.
page(s): 127; note: Misapplication [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) 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): 338-339; note: with a short description [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Vacelet, J.; Verdenal, B.; Périnet, G. (1988). The iron mineralization of <i>Spongia officinalis</i> L. (Porifera, Dictyoceratida) and its relationships with the collagen skeleton. <em>Biology of the Cell.</em> 62: 189-198., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1768-322x.1988.tb00721.x
page(s): 190 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Hussein, K.B.; Talet, L.B. (2019). A preliminary inventory of biodiversity and benthic habitats of “Plane” Island (Paloma) in Oran Bay, north western Algeria, (western Mediterranean). <em>Journal of the Black Sea / Mediterranean Environment.</em> 25 (1): 49-72.
page(s): 59 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Bosc, L.A.G. (1802). Histoire Naturelle des Vers : contenant leur description et leurs moeurs, avec figures dessinées d'après nature. <em>Guilleminet, Paris, chez Deterville.</em> 3 vols. 324 pp. + pls. 1-10; 300 pp. + pls. 11-25; 270 pp. + pls. 26-32. 1-324., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41758184
page(s): 142 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Agne, S.; Ekins, M.; Galitz, A.; Hofreiter, M.; Preick, M.; Straube, N.; Wörheide, G.; Erpenbeck, D. (2022). Keratose sponge MuseOMICS: setting reference points in dictyoceratid demosponge phylogeny. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5195(3): 296-300., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5195.3.9
page(s): 297 and 298 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia quarnerensis Schmidt, 1862) 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]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia quarnerensis Schmidt, 1862) Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Stone, S.M. (1992). O. Schmidt Sponge Catalogue. An illustrated guide to the Graz Museum Collection, with notes on additional material. <em>Muséum d'Histoire naturelle: Geneva.</em> 1-190, pls 1-49.
page(s): 19 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1948). The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. <em>Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation.</em> 3: 1-217.
page(s): 8 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862) Pouliquen, L. (1972). Les spongiaires des grottes sous-marines de la région de Marseille: Ecologie et systématique. <em>Téthys.</em> 3(4): 717-758.
page(s): 728 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862) Sarà, M. (1960). Poriferi del litorale dell'isola d'lschia e loro ripartizioneper ambienti. <em>Pubblicazioni della Stazione zoologica di Napoli.</em> 31(3):421-472, pls XII-XIII.
page(s): 469 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862) Vacelet, J. (1959). Répartition générale des éponges et systématique des éponges cornées de la région de Marseille et de quelques stations méditerranéennes. <em>Recueil des Travaux de la Station marine d'Endoume.</em> 16 (26): 39-101, pls 1-3.
page(s): 76-77 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862) Burton, M. (1936). The fishery ground near Alexandria. IX. Sponges. <em>Notes and Memoirs of the Fisheries Research Directorate, Cairo.</em> 17: 1-28.
page(s): 24 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862) Lopes, M.T.; Boury-Esnault, N. (1981). Contribution à la connaissance des éponges cornées de la côte de l'Arrábida et de l'Algarve. <em>Arquivos do Museu Bocage.</em> 1(6): 95-110.
page(s): 99 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862) Corriero, G.; Longo, C.; Mercurio, M.; Nonnis Marzano, C.; Lembo, G.; Spedicato, M.T. (2004). Rearing performance of <i>Spongia officinalis</i> on suspended ropes off the Southern Italian Coast (Central Mediterranean Sea). <em>Aquaculture.</em> 238(1-4): 195-205., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2004.04.030
page(s): 198 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Euspongia officinalis (Linnaeus, 1759)) Reyss, D. (1964). Contribution à l'étude du Rech Lacaze-Duthiers, vallée sous-marine des côtes du Rousillon. <em>Vie & Milieu.</em> 15, 1-46.
page(s): 16 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Euspongia officinalis var. exigua Schulze, 1879) 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): 274 [details]   

additional source  (of Euspongia officinalis var. exigua Schulze, 1879) Topsent, E. (1901). Considérations sur la faune des spongiaires des côtes d'Algérie. Eponges de La Calle. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> (3) 9: 327-370, pls XIII-XIV.
page(s): 359 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Euspongia officinalis var. exigua Schulze, 1879) Topsent, E. (1894). Éponges du Golfe de Gabès. <em>Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France,.</em> 7: 37-44, pl. I.
page(s): 7 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Euspongia officinalis (Linnaeus, 1759)) 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): 125-130 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia officinalis var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862) 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]  OpenAccess publication 

new combination reference  (of Spongia officinalis mediterranea var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 511 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

new combination reference  (of Euspongia adriatica (Schmidt, 1862)) Marion, A.-F. (1883). Considérations sur les faunes profondes de la Méditerranée d'après les dragages opérés au large des côtes méridionales de France. <em>Annales du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Marseille, Zoologie.</em> 1(Memoire 2): 1-50., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53910108
page(s): 42 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

status source  (of Spongia officinalis var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862) Burton, M. (1934). Sponges. <em>Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29.</em> 4 (14): 513-621, pls 1-2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49517195#page/667/mode/1up
page(s): 574-575 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

status source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Bowerbank, J.S. (1862). On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part III On the Generic Characters, the Specific Characters, and on the Method of Examination. <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.</em> 152(2): 1087-1135, pls LXXII-LXXIV.
page(s): 1119 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

toxicology source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Perez, T.; Wafo, E.; Fourt, M.; Vacelet, J. (2003). Marine Sponges as Biomonitor of Polychlorobiphenyl Contamination:  Concentration and Fate of 24 Congeners. <em>Environmental Science & Technology.</em> 37(10): 2152-2158., available online at https://doi.org/10.1021/es026234v [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

toxicology source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Perez, T.; Longet, D.; Schembri, T.; Rebouillon, P.; Vacelet, J. (2005). Effects of 12 years' operation of a sewage treatment plant on trace metal occurrence within a Mediterranean commercial sponge (<i>Spongia officinalis</i>, Demospongiae). <em>Marine Pollution Bulletin.</em> 50(3): 301-309., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2004.11.001 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

biology source  (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Vacelet, J.; Vacelet, E.; Gaino, E.; Gallissian, M.-F. (1994). Bacterial attack of spongin skeleton during the 1986-1990 Mediterranean sponge disease. <i>in</i>: Sponges in Time and Space, van Soest, van Kempen & Braekman (eds) Balkema. Rotterdam. pp 355-362.
page(s): 358-359 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
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Neotype (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) BMNH 1883.12.4.28 [details]
Neotype (of Euspongia officinalis var. adriatica (Schmidt, 1862)) BMNH 1883.12.4.28, geounit Adriatic Sea [details]
Nontype (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) MRAC 507 [details]
Nontype (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) MRAC 558 [details]
Syntype (of Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862) LMJG 15384, geounit Adriatic Sea [details]
Syntype (of Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862) LMJG 15404, geounit Adriatic Sea [details]
Syntype (of Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862) LMJG 15474, geounit Adriatic Sea [details]
Syntype (of Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862) LMJG 15949, geounit Adriatic Sea [details]
From editor or global species database
Neotype The neotype designation by Burton (1934: 570) is not warranted because there is a syntype series of 4 specimens in the Graz Museum (LMJG). Neotypes are only warranted if there is no extant original type material.  [details]
LanguageName 
Albanian sfungjeri i tualetit [from synonym]  [details]
Dutch badspons [from synonym]  [details]
English Turkey cup spongefine Levant spongebath sponge [from synonym]  [details]
German Tafelschwamm [from synonym]Feiner LevantinerschwammDalmatiner Schwamm [from synonym]Badeschwamm [from synonym]  [details]
Italian spugna da bagno [from synonym]  [details]
Japanese モクヨクカイメン [from synonym]  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) ΦίνοΜελάτια  [details]


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