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WoRMS taxon detailsTethya sphaerica Fleming, 1828
1783076 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1783076)
accepted
Species
marine,
recent only
Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569
page(s): 520 [details]
Taxonomy Fleming (1828) based his species on Montagu's (1814) Spongia verrucosa, which Montagu associated with hesitation to...
Taxonomy Fleming (1828) based his species on Montagu's (1814) Spongia verrucosa, which Montagu associated with hesitation to Alcyonium lyncurium Linnaeus, 1767 and Alcyonium aurantium Pallas, 1766. The name verrucosa was already used by Esper (1794) for a different sponge (Axinella verrucosa, so a new name was necessary. Unfortunately, since Montagu and Fleming, several Tethya species have been described from the Celtic Seas one of which may be the same species as Fleming's, but it will be hard to decide which one it is. Thanks to Andreu Santin Muriel for pointing out Fleming's species. [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. Tethya sphaerica Fleming, 1828. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1783076 on 2025-05-14
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Nomenclatureoriginal description
Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569 page(s): 520 [details] Otheradditional source
Montagu, G. (1814 [1818]). An Essay on Sponges, with Descriptions of all the Species that have been discovered on the Coast of Great Britain. <em>Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society.</em> 2(1): 67-122, pls III-XVI., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45847761 [details]
  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Fleming (1828) based his species on Montagu's (1814) Spongia verrucosa, which Montagu associated with hesitation to Alcyonium lyncurium Linnaeus, 1767 and Alcyonium aurantium Pallas, 1766. The name verrucosa was already used by Esper (1794) for a different sponge (Axinella verrucosa, so a new name was necessary. Unfortunately, since Montagu and Fleming, several Tethya species have been described from the Celtic Seas one of which may be the same species as Fleming's, but it will be hard to decide which one it is. Thanks to Andreu Santin Muriel for pointing out Fleming's species. [details]
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