World Porifera Database - Species - Placochalina Lendenfeld, 1887

Porifera name details

Placochalina Lendenfeld, 1887

AphiaID

184837 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:184837)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (junior synonym)

Accepted name

Callyspongia (Cavochalina) Carter, 1885

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Spongia bilamellata Lamarck, 1814 accepted as Callyspongia (Cavochalina) bilamellata (Lamarck, 1814) (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Callyspongiidae Laubenfels, 1936

Original name

Placochalina Lendenfeld, 1887

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Species Placochalina arenosa (Carter, 1882) accepted as Arenosclera digitata (Carter, 1882) (genus transfer and reverted species name)
Species Placochalina bilamellata (Lamarck, 1814) accepted as Callyspongia (Cavochalina) bilamellata (Lamarck, 1814) (genus transfer)
Species Placochalina infundibuliformis (Linnaeus, 1759) accepted as Axinella infundibuliformis (Linnaeus, 1759) (genus transfer)
Species Placochalina pandaea (Lendenfeld, 1887) accepted as Callyspongia pandaea (Lendenfeld, 1887) (genus transfer)
Species Placochalina pedunculata Lendenfeld, 1887 accepted as Callyspongia (Cavochalina) bilamellata (Lamarck, 1814) (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Lendenfeld, R. von. (1887). Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Jena. 2: 723-828, pls XVIII-XXVII.
page(s): 790-791 [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. Placochalina Lendenfeld, 1887. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=184837 on 2026-10-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2005-12-12 17:12:35Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-02-13 10:12:28Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2007-10-24 14:15:32Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2020-11-03 12:55:14Z

changed

Boury-Esnault, Nicole

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Sources (5)

original description Lendenfeld, R. von. (1887). Die Chalineen des australischen Gebietes. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Jena. 2: 723-828, pls XVIII-XXVII.
page(s): 790-791 [details]

basis of record Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Valentine, C. (2002 [2004]). Family Callyspongiidae de Laubenfels, 1936. Pp. 835-851. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York. 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors

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basis of record Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Valentine, C. (2002). Family Callyspongiidae de Laubenfels, 1936. Pp. 835-851. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York. 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_90 [details]

additional source Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1936). A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication. 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30) 1-225, pls 1-22.
page(s): 59 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Lendenfeld, R. von. (1889). Das System der Spongien. Biologisches Zentralblatt. 9 (4): 113-127.
page(s): 127; note: As Plakochalina. [details]