World Porifera Database - Species - Velinea ramodigitata (Topsent, 1901)

Porifera name details

Velinea ramodigitata (Topsent, 1901)

AphiaID

194520 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:194520)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (genus transfer)

Accepted name

Spongionella ramodigitata (Topsent, 1901)

Rank

Species

Parent

Velinea Vosmaer, 1883 accepted as Spongionella Bowerbank, 1862

Original name

Euspongia irregularis var. ramodigitata Topsent, 1901

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Euspongia irregularis var. ramodigitata Topsent, 1901) Topsent, E. (1901). Considérations sur la faune des spongiaires des côtes d'Algérie. Eponges de La Calle. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale. (3) 9: 327-370, pls XIII-XIV.
page(s): 359-362; pl XIII fig 3, pl XIV fig 3-4 [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. Velinea ramodigitata (Topsent, 1901). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=194520 on 2026-09-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-12-18 15:00:44Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-05-06 07:50:12Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2016-03-20 13:13:14Z

changed

Boury-Esnault, Nicole

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Sources (3)
Documented distribution (2)

original description (of Euspongia irregularis var. ramodigitata Topsent, 1901) Topsent, E. (1901). Considérations sur la faune des spongiaires des côtes d'Algérie. Eponges de La Calle. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale. (3) 9: 327-370, pls XIII-XIV.
page(s): 359-362; pl XIII fig 3, pl XIV fig 3-4 [details]

additional source Burton, M. (1956). The sponges of West Africa. Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen). 4: 111-147.
page(s): 143 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Topsent, E. (1928). Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert ler de Monaco. [Atlantic and Mediterranean sponges from the cruises of Prince Albert I of Monaco]. Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco. 74:1-376, pls I-XI.
page(s): 332 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality