World Porifera Database - Species - Siphonochalina communis (Carter, 1881)

Porifera name details

Siphonochalina communis (Carter, 1881)

AphiaID

559462 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:559462)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (genus transfer)

Accepted name

Callyspongia (Euplacella) communis (Carter, 1881)

Rank

Species

Parent

Siphonochalina Schmidt, 1868

Original name

Tubulodigitus communis Carter, 1881

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Variety Siphonochalina communis var. tenuispiculata Dendy, 1905 accepted as Callyspongia (Euplacella) communis (Carter, 1881) (junior synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Tubulodigitus communis Carter, 1881) Carter, H.J. (1881). Supplementary Report on Specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar, together with others from the Sea in the Vicinity of the Basse Rocks and from Bass's Straits respectively, presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt. H. Cawne Warren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (5) 7: 361-385, pl. XVIII., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222938109459534
page(s): 367-368 [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. Siphonochalina communis (Carter, 1881). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=559462 on 2026-07-11

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2011-02-11 09:14:59Z

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original description (of Tubulodigitus communis Carter, 1881) Carter, H.J. (1881). Supplementary Report on Specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar, together with others from the Sea in the Vicinity of the Basse Rocks and from Bass's Straits respectively, presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt. H. Cawne Warren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (5) 7: 361-385, pl. XVIII., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222938109459534
page(s): 367-368 [details]

additional source Dendy, A. (1889). Report on a Second Collection of Sponges from the Gulf of Manaar. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (6) 3: 73-99,pls III-V., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222938909460303
page(s): 81-82 [details]

additional source Burton, M. (1926). Cambridge Expedition to the Suez canal, III. Report on the sponges. Transactions of the Zoological Society. 22: 71-83.
page(s): 79 [details]

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Introduced: alien

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