World Porifera Database - Species - Raspailia (Raspailia) tenella (Lendenfeld, 1888)

Porifera taxon details

Raspailia (Raspailia) tenella (Lendenfeld, 1888)

AphiaID

387386 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:387386)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Raspailia (Raspailia) Nardo, 1833

Original name

Axinella hispida var. tenella Lendenfeld, 1888

Synonymised names

Axinella hispida var. tenella Lendenfeld, 1888 · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Axinella tenella Lendenfeld, 1888 · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Raspailia tenella (Lendenfeld, 1888) · alternative representation (subgenus assignment)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Axinella hispida var. tenella Lendenfeld, 1888) 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): 235 [details]

Type data

Lectotype (of Axinella hispida var. tenella Lendenfeld,...

Lectotype (of Axinella hispida var. tenella Lendenfeld, 1888) AM G9074, geounit Manning-Hawkesbury [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. Raspailia (Raspailia) tenella (Lendenfeld, 1888). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php/www.aqua-aquapress.com/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=387386 on 2026-07-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-03-30 10:28:24Z

created

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2017-08-22 15:49:01Z

changed

Boury-Esnault, Nicole

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original description (of Axinella hispida var. tenella Lendenfeld, 1888) 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): 235 [details]

basis of record Hooper, J.N.A. (1991). Revision of the family Raspailiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae), with description of Australian species. <em>Invertebrate Taxonomy.</em> 5 (6): 1179-1418., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/it9911179
page(s): 1213-1215 [details] Available for editors

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status source (of Axinella tenella Lendenfeld, 1888) Hallmann, E.F. (1914). A revision of the monaxonid species described as new in Lendenfeld's ‘Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum. Part I, II, III. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 39: 263-315, 327-376, 398-446, pls XV-XXIV., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.2286 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Lectotype (of Axinella hispida var. tenella Lendenfeld, 1888) AM G9074, geounit Manning-Hawkesbury [details]

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Raspailia tenella (Lendenfeld, 1888))