World Porifera Database - Species - Amorphina caspia Grimm, 1877

Porifera name details

Amorphina caspia Grimm, 1877

AphiaID

346454 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:346454)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Accepted name

Metschnikowia tuberculata Grimm, 1877

Rank

Species

Parent

Amorphina Schmidt, 1870 accepted as Halichondria (Halichondria) Fleming, 1828

Original name

Amorphina caspia Grimm, 1877

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Variety Amorphina caspia var. incrassata Czerniavsky, 1880 accepted as Metschnikowia tuberculata Grimm, 1877 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Variety Amorphina caspia var. incrustans Czerniavsky, 1880 accepted as Metschnikowia tuberculata Grimm, 1877 (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Grimm, O.A. (1877). Kaspijskoe more i ego fauna.Tetrad 2. [Das Kaspische Meer und seine Fauna]. Trudy Aralo-Kaspiiskoi Ekspeditsii. Vyp. 2: 1-105, plates I- IX. St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=LikHAQAAIAAJ
page(s): 29 [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. Amorphina caspia Grimm, 1877. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=346454 on 2026-05-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-07-10 13:07:12Z

created

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2008-10-07 17:53:51Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

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Sources (3)
Documented distribution (1)

original description Grimm, O.A. (1877). Kaspijskoe more i ego fauna.Tetrad 2. [Das Kaspische Meer und seine Fauna]. Trudy Aralo-Kaspiiskoi Ekspeditsii. Vyp. 2: 1-105, plates I- IX. St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=LikHAQAAIAAJ
page(s): 29 [details]

basis of record Koltun, V.M. (1962). On sponges (Porifera) of the Caspian Sea. Zoologichesky Zhurnal Moskva. 41 10): 1469-1476. [details] Available for editors

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additional source Czerniavsky, V. (1880 [1879]). Spongiae littorales Pontis Euxini et maris Caspii. Continuatio. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 54 (3): 88-128, 228-320, pls I-IV [In Russian].
page(s): 92 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

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