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Topsentia Berg, 1899

131821  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131821)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Porifera (Phylum)
  4. Demospongiae (Class)
  5. Heteroscleromorpha (Subclass)
  6. Suberitida (Order)
  7. Halichondriidae (Family)
  8. Topsentia (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Anisoxya glabra Topsent, 1898 accepted as Topsentia glabra (Topsent, 1898) (type by original designation)
Anisoxya Topsent, 1898 · unaccepted (preoccupied)
Callites Schmidt, 1868 · unaccepted (unused name of uncertain identity)
Trachyopsis Dendy, 1905 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Viles de Laubenfels, 1934 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

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  1. Species Topsentia aqabaensis Ilan, Gugel & van Soest, 2004
  2. Species Topsentia arcotti (Ali, 1956)
  3. Species Topsentia bahamensis Diaz, van Soest & Pomponi, 1993
  4. Species Topsentia bubaroides (Lévi & Lévi, 1983)
  5. Species Topsentia calabrisellae Bertolino & Pansini, 2015
  6. Species Topsentia compacta (Sarà, 1978)
  7. Species Topsentia disparilis (Lambe, 1893)
  8. Species Topsentia distincta (de Laubenfels, 1957)
  9. Species Topsentia dura (Lindgren, 1897)
  10. Species Topsentia fernaldi (Sim & Bakus, 1986)
  11. Species Topsentia fibrosa (Fristedt, 1887)
  12. Species Topsentia garciae Bibiloni, 1993
  13. Species Topsentia glabra (Topsent, 1898)
  14. Species Topsentia halichondrioides (Dendy, 1905)
  15. Species Topsentia hemispherica (Dendy, 1905)
  16. Species Topsentia hispida (de Laubenfels, 1954)
  17. Species Topsentia indica Hentschel, 1912
  18. Species Topsentia kushimotoensis (Hoshino, 1977)
  19. Species Topsentia lacazei (Schmidt, 1868)
  20. Species Topsentia levivaceletorum Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
  21. Species Topsentia megalorrhapis (Carter, 1881)
  22. Species Topsentia mollis (de Laubenfels, 1954)
  23. Species Topsentia myxa (de Laubenfels, 1951)
  24. Species Topsentia novaezealandiae (Dendy, 1924)
  25. Species Topsentia ophiraphidites (de Laubenfels, 1934)
  26. Species Topsentia oxyspicula (Dickinson, 1945)
  27. Species Topsentia pachastrelloides (Topsent, 1892)
  28. Species Topsentia plurisclera Pulitzer-Finali, 1996
  29. Species Topsentia profunditatis (Schmidt, 1870)
  30. Species Topsentia pseudoporrecta Diaz, van Soest & Pomponi, 1993
  31. Species Topsentia ridleyi (Hooper, Cook, Hobbs & Kennedy, 1997)
  32. Species Topsentia rugosa (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
  33. Species Topsentia salomonensis (Dendy, 1922)
  34. Species Topsentia solida (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
  35. Species Topsentia stellettoides (Lévi, 1961)
  36. Species Topsentia vaceleti Kefalas & Castritsi-Catharios, 2012
  37. Species Topsentia annandalei (Ferrer Hernández, 1923) accepted as Spongosorites annandalei (Ferrer Hernández, 1923) (genus transfer)
  38. Species Topsentia aurantiaca (Schmidt, 1864) accepted as Axinyssa aurantiaca (Schmidt, 1864)
  39. Species Topsentia contorta Sarà, 1961 accepted as Halichondria (Halichondria) contorta (Sarà, 1961) (genus transfer)
  40. Species Topsentia difficilis (Lundbeck, 1902) accepted as Spongosorites difficilis (Lundbeck, 1902) (genus transfer)
  41. Species Topsentia genitrix (Schmidt, 1870) accepted as Halichondria (Halichondria) genitrix (Schmidt, 1870) (genus transfer)
  42. Species Topsentia gyroderma Alcolado, 1984 accepted as Myrmekioderma gyroderma (Alcolado, 1984) (genus transfer)
  43. Species Topsentia maculosa Pulitzer-Finali, 1996 accepted as Amorphinopsis maculosa (Pulitzer-Finali, 1996) (genus change)
  44. Species Topsentia mixta Sarà, 1958 accepted as Hymeniacidon mixta (Sarà, 1958) (genus transfer)
  45. Species Topsentia nigrocutis (Carter, 1886) accepted as Halichondria (Halichondria) nigrocutis (Carter, 1886)
  46. Species Topsentia porrecta (Topsent, 1928) accepted as Ciocalypta porrecta (Topsent, 1928) (genus transfer)
  47. Species Topsentia roquensis Díaz, Alvarez & van Soest, 1987 accepted as Topsentia ophiraphidites (de Laubenfels, 1934) (junior synonym)
  48. Species Topsentia sinuatus (Pulitzer-Finali, 1996) accepted as Topsentia ophiraphidites (de Laubenfels, 1934) (junior synonym)
  49. Species Topsentia subtilis (Pulitzer-Finali, 1983) accepted as Laminospongia subtilis Pulitzer-Finali, 1983 (reverted genus transfer)
  50. Species Topsentia tenuispinosa (Topsent, 1927) accepted as Alloscleria tenuispinosa Topsent, 1927 (genus transfer)
  51. Species Topsentia topsenti (Lévi & Vacelet, 1958) accepted as Topsentia levivaceletorum Van Soest & Hooper, 2020 (preoccupied)
  52. Species Topsentia amorpha Gammill, 1997 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Berg, C. (1899). Substitución de nombres genéricos. III. <em>Communicaciones del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires.</em> 1 (3): 77-80. [details] OpenAccess publication
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. Topsentia Berg, 1899. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131821 on 2025-05-02
Date
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by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
van Soest, Rob W.M.
2007-08-25 14:21:13Z
changed
van Soest, Rob W.M.
2018-10-11 06:46:42Z
changed
Boury-Esnault, Nicole
2020-12-16 10:32:25Z
changed
van Soest, Rob W.M.

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Nomenclature

original description Berg, C. (1899). Substitución de nombres genéricos. III. <em>Communicaciones del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires.</em> 1 (3): 77-80. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Anisoxya Topsent, 1898) Topsent, E. (1898). Eponges nouvelles des Açores. (Première serie). <em>Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France.</em> 11: 225-255. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Trachyopsis Dendy, 1905) Dendy, A. (1905). Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman,at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>In: Herdman, W.A. (Ed.), Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. 3 (Supplement 18). (Royal Society: London).</em> Pp. 57-246, pls I-XVI.
page(s): 147 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Viles de Laubenfels, 1934) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1934). New sponges from the Puerto Rican deep. <em>Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.</em> 91(17): 1-28.
page(s): 13 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Callites Schmidt, 1868) Schmidt, O. (1868). Die Spongien der Küste von Algier. Mit Nachträgen zu den Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres (Drittes Supplement). (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-iv, 1-44, pls I-V.
page(s): 16 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-816. <em>In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii.</em> ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002[2004]). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-815. <em>In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii.</em> ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, <b><i>in</i></b>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification</i>. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details] OpenAccess publication

 
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Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Anisoxya) (from synonym Anisoxya Topsent, 1898)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Topsentia) 
To Genbank (from synonym Anisoxya Topsent, 1898)
To Genbank 
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 086863) 
To ITIS
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To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 086863)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 086863)
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