WoRMS taxon details
Cornulum Carter, 1876
131862 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131862)
accepted
Genus
Cornulum textile Carter, 1876 (type by monotypy)
Coelosphaerella de Laubenfels, 1934 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Heterocornulum Lévi & Lévi, 1983 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melonchela Koltun, 1955 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
- Species Cornulum achela Hentschel, 1912
- Species Cornulum antarcticum Göcke & Janussen, 2013
- Species Cornulum clathriata (Koltun, 1955)
- Species Cornulum globosum Lehnert & Stone, 2015
- Species Cornulum johnsoni (de Laubenfels, 1934)
- Species Cornulum textile Carter, 1876
- Species Cornulum toxiferum (Wilson, 1925)
- Species Cornulum tubiforme Burton, 1935
- Species Cornulum tylotum (Boury-Esnault, 1973)
- Species Cornulum virguliferum (Lévi & Lévi, 1983)
- Species Cornulum ascidioides Fristedt, 1887 accepted as Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) physa (Schmidt, 1875) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
- Species Cornulum cheliradians (Topsent, 1927) accepted as Clathria (Cornulotrocha) cheliradians (Topsent, 1927) (genus transfer)
- Species Cornulum ciocalyptoides Burton, 1935 accepted as Celtodoryx ciocalyptoides (Burton, 1935) (genus transfer)
- Species Cornulum dubium Hentschel, 1912 accepted as Paracornulum dubium (Hentschel, 1912) (genus transfer)
- Species Cornulum enteromorphoides Fristedt, 1887 accepted as Myxilla (Myxilla) fimbriata (Bowerbank, 1866) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
- Species Cornulum fistulatum (Carter, 1880) accepted as Damiria fistulata (Carter, 1880) (genus transfer)
- Species Cornulum novaezealandiae Brøndsted, 1924 accepted as Amphiastrella kirkpatricki Dendy, 1924 (junior synonym)
- Species Cornulum strepsichela Dendy, 1922 accepted as Paracornulum strepsichela (Dendy, 1922) (genus transfer)
- Species Cornulum vesiculatum (Dendy, 1905) accepted as Coelocarteria singaporensis (Carter, 1883) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
neuter
Carter, H.J. (1876). Descriptions and Figures of Deep-Sea Sponges and their Spicules, from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S.‘Porcupine', chiefly in 1869 (concluded). <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (4) 18(105): 226-240; (106): 307-324; (107): 388-410;(108): 458-479, pls XII-XVI. [details] 
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. Cornulum Carter, 1876. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131862 on 2025-05-03
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Carter, H.J. (1876). Descriptions and Figures of Deep-Sea Sponges and their Spicules, from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S.‘Porcupine', chiefly in 1869 (concluded). <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (4) 18(105): 226-240; (106): 307-324; (107): 388-410;(108): 458-479, pls XII-XVI. [details]
original description (of Melonchela Koltun, 1955) Koltun, V.M. (1955). [New genera and species of sponges (<i>Spongia</i>, Cornacuspongida) from the Okhotsk and Bering Seas.]. <em>Trudÿ Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademiya Nauk SSSR.</em> 18 (1): 13-18 pl. 1 [InRussian]. [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Coelosphaerella 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): 20-21 [details]
original description (of Heterocornulum Lévi & Lévi, 1983) Lévi, C.; Lévi, P. (1983). Démosponges bathyales récoltées par le N/O‘Vauban' au sud de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. <em>Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> (4, A) 5(4): 931-997., available online at http://bionames.org/bionames-archive/issn/0181-0626/5/931.pdf
page(s): 966 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Hooper, J.N.A. (2002). Family Acarnidae Dendy, 1922. pp. 412-431. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds.) Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. Volume 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Hooper, J.N.A. (2002 [2004]). Family Acarnidae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 412–431. <em>In: </em>Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). <em>Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges.</em> (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York. 1708+XLVIII. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Melonchela Koltun, 1955) Koltun, V.M. (1955). [New genera and species of sponges (<i>Spongia</i>, Cornacuspongida) from the Okhotsk and Bering Seas.]. <em>Trudÿ Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademiya Nauk SSSR.</em> 18 (1): 13-18 pl. 1 [InRussian]. [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Coelosphaerella 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): 20-21 [details]
original description (of Heterocornulum Lévi & Lévi, 1983) Lévi, C.; Lévi, P. (1983). Démosponges bathyales récoltées par le N/O‘Vauban' au sud de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. <em>Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> (4, A) 5(4): 931-997., available online at http://bionames.org/bionames-archive/issn/0181-0626/5/931.pdf
page(s): 966 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Hooper, J.N.A. (2002). Family Acarnidae Dendy, 1922. pp. 412-431. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds.) Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. Volume 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Hooper, J.N.A. (2002 [2004]). Family Acarnidae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 412–431. <em>In: </em>Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). <em>Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges.</em> (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York. 1708+XLVIII. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
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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]
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