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Porifera taxon details

Spongia (Spongia) hispida Lamarck, 1814

AphiaID

165192 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165192)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Spongia (Spongia) Linnaeus, 1759

Original name

Spongia hispida Lamarck, 1814

Synonymised names

Cacospongia mollior sensu Ridley, 1884 · unaccepted (genus transfer and misidentification)

Euspongia irregularis Lendenfeld, 1886 · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Euspongia irregularis var. areolata Whitelegge, 1901 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Euspongia irregularis var. dura Lendenfeld, 1889 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Euspongia irregularis var. frondosa Lendenfeld, 1889 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Euspongia irregularis var. hispida (Lamarck, 1814) · unaccepted

Euspongia irregularis var. irregularis Lendenfeld, 1886 · unaccepted (genus transfer, preoccupied and...)

genus transfer, preoccupied and junior synonym

Euspongia irregularis var. jacksoniana Lendenfeld, 1886 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Euspongia irregularis var. lutea Lendenfeld, 1886 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Euspongia irregularis var. mollior (sensu Ridley, 1884) · unaccepted (genus transfer and misidentification)

Euspongia irregularis var. silicata Lendenfeld, 1886 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Euspongia irregularis var. tenuis Lendenfeld, 1886 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Euspongia irregularis var. villosa Lendenfeld, 1889 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Hircinia hispida Lamarck, 1814 · unaccepted

Spongia (Spongia) irregularis (Lendenfeld, 1889) · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Spongia (Spongia) vonlendenfeldi Van Soest, 2024 · unaccepted (preoccupied and junior synonym)

Spongia hispida Lamarck, 1814 · alternative representation (subgenus assignment)

Spongia irregularis (Lendenfeld, 1889) · unaccepted (subgenus assignment and junior synonym)

Spongia irregularis var. mollior (sensu Ridley, 1884) · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Spongia zimocca irregularis (Lendenfeld, 1886) · unaccepted

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Spongia hispida Lamarck, 1814) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1814 [1813]). Sur les polypiers empâtés. Annales du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle. 20: 294-312; 370-386; 432-458.
page(s): 452 [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. Spongia (Spongia) hispida Lamarck, 1814. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=165192 on 2025-04-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-07-10 18:05:41Z

created

db_admin

2008-07-17 20:06:01Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2016-12-15 21:45:50Z

changed

Boury-Esnault, Nicole

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Euspongia irregularis Lendenfeld, 1886) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1886 [1885]). A Monograph of the Australian Sponges. Part VI. The Genus Euspongia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 10 (3): 481-553, pls 36-38.
page(s): 485-495 [details]

original description (of Spongia hispida Lamarck, 1814) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1814 [1813]). Sur les polypiers empâtés. Annales du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle. 20: 294-312; 370-386; 432-458.
page(s): 452 [details]

original description (of Euspongia irregularis var. areolata Whitelegge, 1901) Whitelegge, T. (1901). Report on sponges from the coastal beaches of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum. 4 (2): 55-118, pls X-XV. (look up in IMIS) [details]

original description (of Euspongia irregularis var. dura Lendenfeld, 1889) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1889). A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. (Trübner and Co.: London). iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.20735531;view=1up;seq=1
page(s): 225-241 [details]

original description (of Euspongia irregularis var. frondosa Lendenfeld, 1889) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1889). A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. (Trübner and Co.: London). iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.20735531;view=1up;seq=1 [details]

original description (of Euspongia irregularis var. jacksoniana Lendenfeld, 1886) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1886 [1885]). A Monograph of the Australian Sponges. Part VI. The Genus Euspongia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 10 (3): 481-553, pls 36-38.
page(s): 497-498 [details]

original description (of Euspongia irregularis var. jacksoniana Lendenfeld, 1886) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1889). A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. (Trübner and Co.: London). iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.20735531;view=1up;seq=1 [details]

original description (of Euspongia irregularis var. lutea Lendenfeld, 1886) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1886 [1885]). A Monograph of the Australian Sponges. Part VI. The Genus Euspongia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 10 (3): 481-553, pls 36-38.
page(s): 495 [details]

original description (of Euspongia irregularis var. silicata Lendenfeld, 1886) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1886 [1885]). A Monograph of the Australian Sponges. Part VI. The Genus Euspongia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 10 (3): 481-553, pls 36-38.
page(s): 495-496 [details]

original description (of Euspongia irregularis var. tenuis Lendenfeld, 1886) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1886 [1885]). A Monograph of the Australian Sponges. Part VI. The Genus Euspongia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 10 (3): 481-553, pls 36-38. [details]

original description (of Euspongia irregularis var. villosa Lendenfeld, 1889) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1889). A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. (Trübner and Co.: London). iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.20735531;view=1up;seq=1 [details]

original description (of Spongia (Spongia) vonlendenfeldi Van Soest, 2024) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2024). Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera. Zootaxa. 5398(1): 1-122., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1
page(s): 16 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Sivaleela, G. (2014). Marine sponges of Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay. Records of the Zoolgical Survey of India. 114 (Part 4): 607-622.
page(s): 613 [details] Available for editors

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basis of record (of Euspongia irregularis Lendenfeld, 1886) 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): 132-135 [details]

basis of record (of Euspongia irregularis Lendenfeld, 1886) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1889). A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. (Trübner and Co.: London). iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.20735531;view=1up;seq=1 [details]

basis of record (of Euspongia irregularis Lendenfeld, 1886) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2024). Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera. Zootaxa. 5398(1): 1-122., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1
page(s): 16 [details] Available for editors

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basis of record (of Spongia hispida Lamarck, 1814) Hooper, J.N.A.; Wiedenmayer, F. (1994). Porifera. In: Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 12. Melbourne, CSIRO. , available online at https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/PORIFERA/checklist
page(s): 392 [details]

basis of record (of Spongia irregularis var. mollior (sensu Ridley, 1884)) Ridley, S.O. (1884). Spongiida. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert', 1881-2. (British Museum (Natural History): London). 366-482, pls 39-43; 582-630, pls 53-54. [details]

basis of record (of Euspongia irregularis var. silicata Lendenfeld, 1886) Hooper, J.N.A.; Wiedenmayer, F. (1994). Porifera. In: Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 12. Melbourne, CSIRO. , available online at https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/PORIFERA/checklist [details]

basis of record (of Euspongia irregularis var. jacksoniana Lendenfeld, 1886) Hooper, J.N.A.; Wiedenmayer, F. (1994). Porifera. In: Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 12. Melbourne, CSIRO. , available online at https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/PORIFERA/checklist [details]

basis of record (of Euspongia irregularis var. areolata Whitelegge, 1901) Hooper, J.N.A.; Wiedenmayer, F. (1994). Porifera. In: Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 12. Melbourne, CSIRO. , available online at https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/PORIFERA/checklist [details]

basis of record (of Spongia hispida Lamarck, 1814) Topsent, E. (1933). Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Fin. Archives du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris. 10: 1-60.
page(s): 1-2 [details] Available for editors

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basis of record (of Euspongia irregularis var. hispida (Lamarck, 1814)) Topsent, E. (1933). Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Fin. Archives du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris. 10: 1-60.
page(s): 1-2 [details] Available for editors

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basis of record (of Euspongia irregularis var. villosa Lendenfeld, 1889) Hooper, J.N.A.; Wiedenmayer, F. (1994). Porifera. In: Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 12. Melbourne, CSIRO. , available online at https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/PORIFERA/checklist [details]

basis of record (of Cacospongia mollior sensu Ridley, 1884) Ridley, S.O. (1884). Spongiida. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert', 1881-2. (British Museum (Natural History): London). 366-482, pls 39-43; 582-630, pls 53-54.
page(s): 378 [details]

basis of record (of Hircinia hispida Lamarck, 1814) Ridley, S.O. (1881). XI. Spongida. Horny and Siliceous Sponges of Magellan Straits, S.W. Chili, and Atlantic off SW Brazil. in: Account of the Zoological Collections made during the Survey of H.M.S. 'Alert' in the Straits of Magellan and on the Coast of Patagonia. Gunther, A. (Ed.). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 107-141, pls X-XI.
page(s): 109-110 [details]

additional source (of Cacospongia mollior sensu Ridley, 1884) Wiedenmayer, F. (1989). Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait, southern Australia. Memoirs Museum Victoria. 50(1): 1-242, pls 1-38. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 123 [details] Available for editors

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additional source (of Spongia zimocca irregularis (Lendenfeld, 1886)) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1954). The Sponges of the West-Central Pacific. Oregon State Monographs. Studies in Zoology. 7: i-x, 1-306,pls I-XII.
page(s): 6-8 [details]

additional source (of Euspongia irregularis var. tenuis Lendenfeld, 1886) Baar, R. (1904). Hornschwämme aus dem Pacific. Ergebnisse einer Reise nach dem Pacific, Schauinsland 1896 97. Zoologische Jahrbücher Abteilung Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere. 19: 27-36.
page(s): 28 [details]

additional source (of Euspongia irregularis var. mollior (sensu Ridley, 1884)) Topsent, E. (1897). Spongiaires de la Baie d'Amboine. (Voyage de MM. M. Bedot et C. Pictet dans l'Archipel Malais). Revue suisse de Zoologie. 4: 421-487, pls 18-21.
page(s): 484 [details]

additional source (of Euspongia irregularis var. mollior (sensu Ridley, 1884)) Baar, R. (1904). Hornschwämme aus dem Pacific. Ergebnisse einer Reise nach dem Pacific, Schauinsland 1896 97. Zoologische Jahrbücher Abteilung Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere. 19: 27-36.
page(s): 29 [details]

additional source (of Spongia hispida Lamarck, 1814) Wiedenmayer, F. (1989). Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait, southern Australia. Memoirs Museum Victoria. 50(1): 1-242, pls 1-38. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 121-123 [details] Available for editors

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additional source (of Spongia hispida Lamarck, 1814) Thomas, P.A. (1985). Demospongiae of the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay. In: Recent Advances in Marine Biology. New Delhi, James, P.S.B.R. (ed.). Today Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers. 205-365.
page(s): 220 [details] Available for editors

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additional source (of Euspongia irregularis var. dura Lendenfeld, 1889) Baar, R. (1904). Hornschwämme aus dem Pacific. Ergebnisse einer Reise nach dem Pacific, Schauinsland 1896 97. Zoologische Jahrbücher Abteilung Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere. 19: 27-36.
page(s): 28 [details]

additional source (of Euspongia irregularis var. silicata Lendenfeld, 1886) 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): 134-135 [details]

additional source (of Euspongia irregularis var. silicata Lendenfeld, 1886) Ferrer Hernández, F. (1914). Esponjas del Cantábrico. Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Zoológica). 14: 1-36.
page(s): 33; note: Misapplication: http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxsrcedit&action=addsource&tid=195714# [details]

additional source (of Euspongia irregularis var. lutea Lendenfeld, 1886) Baar, R. (1904). Hornschwämme aus dem Pacific. Ergebnisse einer Reise nach dem Pacific, Schauinsland 1896 97. Zoologische Jahrbücher Abteilung Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere. 19: 27-36.
page(s): 28-29 [details]

additional source (of Spongia hispida Lamarck, 1814) Hoshino, T. (1981). Shallow-Water Demosponges of Western Japan, 1. Journal of Science of the Hiroshima University (B). 29 (1): 47-205.
page(s): 59-60 [details]

additional source (of Spongia hispida Lamarck, 1814) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1948). The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation. 3: 1-217.
page(s): 15-16 [details] Available for editors

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additional source (of Spongia hispida Lamarck, 1814) Tanita, S.; Hoshino, T. (1989). The Demospongiae of Sagami Bay. Biological Laboratory, Imperial Household: Japan. i-xiii, 1-197 [in English], pls 1-19; 1-166 [in Japanese], 1 map.
page(s): 185 [details] Available for editors

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additional source (of Spongia (Spongia) irregularis (Lendenfeld, 1889)) Helmy, T.; El Serehy, H.; Mohamed, S.Z.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2004). Description and classification of dictyoceratid sponges from the northern Red Sea. Beaufortia. 54 (6): 81-91.
page(s): 87-88 [details]

additional source (of Spongia (Spongia) irregularis (Lendenfeld, 1889)) Kelly, M.; Edwards, A.R.; Wilkinson, M.R.; Alvarez, B.; Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R.; Buckeridge, St J.; Campbell, H.J.; Reiswig, H.M.; Valentine, C.; Vacelet, J. (2009). Phylum Porifera: sponges. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 23-46. [details] Available for editors

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additional source (of Spongia (Spongia) irregularis (Lendenfeld, 1889)) Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source (of Spongia irregularis (Lendenfeld, 1889)) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source (of Spongia irregularis (Lendenfeld, 1889)) Lévi, C. (1965). Spongiaires récoltés par l'expédition israélienne dans le sud de la Mer Rouge en 1962. In: Israel South Red Sea Expedition, 1962, Report 13. Sea Fisheries Research Station Haifa Bulletin. 39, 3-27.
page(s): 23 [details]

additional source (of Spongia irregularis (Lendenfeld, 1889)) Helmy, T.; El Serehy, H.; Mohamed, S.Z.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2004). Description and classification of dictyoceratid sponges from the northern Red Sea. Beaufortia. 54 (6): 81-91. [details]

additional source (of Spongia irregularis var. mollior (sensu Ridley, 1884)) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source (of Spongia irregularis var. mollior (sensu Ridley, 1884)) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1889). A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. (Trübner and Co.: London). iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.20735531;view=1up;seq=1 [details]

source of synonymy (of Cacospongia mollior sensu Ridley, 1884) Hooper, J.N.A.; Wiedenmayer, F. (1994). Porifera. In: Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 12. Melbourne, CSIRO. , available online at https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/PORIFERA/checklist [details]

source of synonymy (of Cacospongia mollior sensu Ridley, 1884) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1889). A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. (Trübner and Co.: London). iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.20735531;view=1up;seq=1
page(s): 256 [details]

source of synonymy (of Spongia zimocca irregularis (Lendenfeld, 1886)) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1948). The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation. 3: 1-217.
page(s): 14 [details] Available for editors

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new combination reference (of Euspongia irregularis var. mollior (sensu Ridley, 1884)) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1889). A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. (Trübner and Co.: London). iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.20735531;view=1up;seq=1 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unknown type (of Spongia hispida Lamarck, 1814) MNHN DT 3332 [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
English	yellow sponge [from synonym]hardhead sponge [from synonym]	[details]
German	Gelbschwamm [from synonym]	[details]
Japanese	トゲカイメン／ヤワトゲカイメン [from synonym]	[details]

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