Porifera taxon details
Forcepia (Leptolabis) luciensis (Topsent, 1888)
168891 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168891)
accepted
Species
Dendoryx luciensis Topsent, 1888 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Forcepia exilis (Topsent, 1892) · unaccepted (subgenus assignment and junior synonym)
Forcepia luciensis (Topsent, 1888) · alternative representation (subgenus assignment)
Leptolabis exilis (Topsent, 1892) · unaccepted
Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Leptosia exilis Topsent, 1892 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Leptosia luciensis (Topsent, 1888) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Dendoryx luciensis Topsent, 1888) Topsent, E. (1888). Notes Spongologiques. <em>Archives de Zoologie, Expérimentale et Générale.</em> ser 2 v. 6, xxxiii-xliii.
page(s): xxxvii [details]
page(s): xxxvii [details]
Type locality contained in North Sea
type locality contained in North Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [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. Forcepia (Leptolabis) luciensis (Topsent, 1888). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=168891 on 2025-05-03
original description
(of Leptosia exilis Topsent, 1892) Topsent, E. (1892). Diagnoses d'éponges nouvelles de la Méditerranée et plus particulièrement de Banyuls. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> (2) 10 (Notes et Revue 6) xvii-xxviii.
page(s): XXII [details]
original description (of Dendoryx luciensis Topsent, 1888) Topsent, E. (1888). Notes Spongologiques. <em>Archives de Zoologie, Expérimentale et Générale.</em> ser 2 v. 6, xxxiii-xliii.
page(s): xxxvii [details]
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Coelosphaeridae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 528-546. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details]
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Family Coelosphaeridae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 528-546. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
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basis of record (of Dendoryx luciensis Topsent, 1888) 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]
basis of record (of Forcepia exilis (Topsent, 1892)) 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]
basis of record (of Forcepia luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) 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]
basis of record (of Leptosia exilis Topsent, 1892) 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]
basis of record (of Leptolabis exilis (Topsent, 1892)) Topsent, E. (1925). Etude des Spongiaires du Golfe de Naples. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> 63(5): 623-725, pl. VIII.
page(s): 677 [details]
additional source (of Leptolabis exilis (Topsent, 1892)) Vacelet, J. (1976). Inventaire des Spongiaires du Parc national de Port-Cros (Var). <em>Travaux scientifiques du Parc national de Port-Cros.</em> 2, 167-186.
page(s): 178 [details] Available for editors
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additional source (of Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Topsent, E. (1936). Eponges observées dans les parages de Monaco. (Deuxième partie). <em>Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco.</em> 686: 1-7.
page(s): 25 [details]
additional source (of Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Bibiloni, M-A. (1981). Estudi faunistic del litoral de Blanes (Girona). II Sistemàtica d'esponges. <em>Butlletí de la Institució Catalana d'Història Natural.</em> 47: 5-59.
page(s): 26; fig 4H [details] Available for editors
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additional source (of Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Solórzano, M.R. (1990). Poríferos del litoral gallego: estudio faunístico, distribución e inventario. <em>Phd Thesis Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela.</em> 1036 pp.
page(s): 828-831 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source (of Forcepia luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Van Soest, R.W.M. (1993). Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. <em>Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.</em> 159: 205-219. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source (of Forcepia luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Sitjà, C.; Maldonado, M.; Farias, C.; Rueda, J.L. (2019). Deep-water sponge fauna from the mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz (North Atlantic, Spain). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 99 (4): 807 - 831., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315418000589
page(s): SUP MAT Appendix 1 [details] Available for editors
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additional source (of Forcepia luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Voultsiadou, E.; Kyrodimou, M.; Antoniadou, C.; Vafidis, D. (2010). Sponge epibionts on ecosystem-engineering ascidians: The case of <i>Microcosmus sabatieri</i>. <em>Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.</em> 86(4): 598-606., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2009.11.035
page(s): 601 [details] Available for editors
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additional source (of Dendoryx luciensis Topsent, 1888) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Coelosphaeridae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 528-546. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details]
additional source (of Dendoryx luciensis Topsent, 1888) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Family Coelosphaeridae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 528-546. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source (of Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Borojevic, R.; Cabioch, L.; Lévi, C. (1968). Inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Spongiaires. <em>Éditions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.</em> pp. 1-44., available online at http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/images/stories/sbr/observation/documents/spongiaires.pdf
page(s): 23 [details] Available for editors
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additional source (of Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Boury-Esnault, N.; Lopes, M.T. (1985). Les Démosponges littorales de l'Archipel des Açores. <em>Annales de l'Institut océanographique.</em> 61(2): 149-225.
page(s): 188-189; fig 36 [details] Available for editors
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additional source (of Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Cabioch, L. (1968). Contribution à la connaissance de la faune des Spongiaires de la Manche occidentale. Démosponges de la région de Roscoff. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 9(2): 211-246.
page(s): 235 [details] Available for editors
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additional source (of Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Pouliquen, L. (1972). Les spongiaires des grottes sous-marines de la région de Marseille: Ecologie et systématique. <em>Téthys.</em> 3(4): 717-758.
page(s): 127 [details]
redescription (of Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Topsent, E. (1925). Etude des Spongiaires du Golfe de Naples. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> 63(5): 623-725, pl. VIII.
page(s): 673-678; fig 18 [details]
new combination reference (of Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Topsent, E. (1904). Spongiaires des Açores. <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 25: 1-280, pls 1-18., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40603003
page(s): 184; pl XV fig 8 [details]
new combination reference (of Leptosia luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Topsent, E. (1901). Considérations sur la faune des spongiaires des côtes d'Algérie. Eponges de La Calle. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> (3) 9: 327-370, pls XIII-XIV.
page(s): 353-354 [details]
page(s): XXII [details]
original description (of Dendoryx luciensis Topsent, 1888) Topsent, E. (1888). Notes Spongologiques. <em>Archives de Zoologie, Expérimentale et Générale.</em> ser 2 v. 6, xxxiii-xliii.
page(s): xxxvii [details]
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Coelosphaeridae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 528-546. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details]

basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Family Coelosphaeridae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 528-546. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors

basis of record (of Dendoryx luciensis Topsent, 1888) 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]
basis of record (of Forcepia exilis (Topsent, 1892)) 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]
basis of record (of Forcepia luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) 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]
basis of record (of Leptosia exilis Topsent, 1892) 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]
basis of record (of Leptolabis exilis (Topsent, 1892)) Topsent, E. (1925). Etude des Spongiaires du Golfe de Naples. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> 63(5): 623-725, pl. VIII.
page(s): 677 [details]
additional source (of Leptolabis exilis (Topsent, 1892)) Vacelet, J. (1976). Inventaire des Spongiaires du Parc national de Port-Cros (Var). <em>Travaux scientifiques du Parc national de Port-Cros.</em> 2, 167-186.
page(s): 178 [details] Available for editors

additional source (of Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Topsent, E. (1936). Eponges observées dans les parages de Monaco. (Deuxième partie). <em>Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco.</em> 686: 1-7.
page(s): 25 [details]
additional source (of Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Bibiloni, M-A. (1981). Estudi faunistic del litoral de Blanes (Girona). II Sistemàtica d'esponges. <em>Butlletí de la Institució Catalana d'Història Natural.</em> 47: 5-59.
page(s): 26; fig 4H [details] Available for editors

additional source (of Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Solórzano, M.R. (1990). Poríferos del litoral gallego: estudio faunístico, distribución e inventario. <em>Phd Thesis Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela.</em> 1036 pp.
page(s): 828-831 [details] Available for editors

additional source (of Forcepia luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Van Soest, R.W.M. (1993). Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. <em>Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.</em> 159: 205-219. [details] Available for editors

additional source (of Forcepia luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Sitjà, C.; Maldonado, M.; Farias, C.; Rueda, J.L. (2019). Deep-water sponge fauna from the mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz (North Atlantic, Spain). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 99 (4): 807 - 831., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315418000589
page(s): SUP MAT Appendix 1 [details] Available for editors

additional source (of Forcepia luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Voultsiadou, E.; Kyrodimou, M.; Antoniadou, C.; Vafidis, D. (2010). Sponge epibionts on ecosystem-engineering ascidians: The case of <i>Microcosmus sabatieri</i>. <em>Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.</em> 86(4): 598-606., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2009.11.035
page(s): 601 [details] Available for editors

additional source (of Dendoryx luciensis Topsent, 1888) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Coelosphaeridae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 528-546. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details]

additional source (of Dendoryx luciensis Topsent, 1888) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Family Coelosphaeridae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 528-546. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors

additional source (of Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Borojevic, R.; Cabioch, L.; Lévi, C. (1968). Inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Spongiaires. <em>Éditions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.</em> pp. 1-44., available online at http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/images/stories/sbr/observation/documents/spongiaires.pdf
page(s): 23 [details] Available for editors

additional source (of Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Boury-Esnault, N.; Lopes, M.T. (1985). Les Démosponges littorales de l'Archipel des Açores. <em>Annales de l'Institut océanographique.</em> 61(2): 149-225.
page(s): 188-189; fig 36 [details] Available for editors

additional source (of Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Cabioch, L. (1968). Contribution à la connaissance de la faune des Spongiaires de la Manche occidentale. Démosponges de la région de Roscoff. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 9(2): 211-246.
page(s): 235 [details] Available for editors

additional source (of Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Pouliquen, L. (1972). Les spongiaires des grottes sous-marines de la région de Marseille: Ecologie et systématique. <em>Téthys.</em> 3(4): 717-758.
page(s): 127 [details]
redescription (of Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Topsent, E. (1925). Etude des Spongiaires du Golfe de Naples. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> 63(5): 623-725, pl. VIII.
page(s): 673-678; fig 18 [details]
new combination reference (of Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Topsent, E. (1904). Spongiaires des Açores. <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 25: 1-280, pls 1-18., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40603003
page(s): 184; pl XV fig 8 [details]
new combination reference (of Leptosia luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) Topsent, E. (1901). Considérations sur la faune des spongiaires des côtes d'Algérie. Eponges de La Calle. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> (3) 9: 327-370, pls XIII-XIV.
page(s): 353-354 [details]




Unknown type (of Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888)) MNHN DT 2661, geounit North Sea [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Leptosia exilis Topsent, 1892)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Leptosia luciensis (Topsent, 1888))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Dendoryx luciensis Topsent, 1888)
To PESI (from synonym Dendoryx luciensis Topsent, 1888)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888))
To PESI (from synonym Leptosia exilis Topsent, 1892)
To PESI (from synonym Forcepia exilis (Topsent, 1892))
To PESI (from synonym Forcepia luciensis (Topsent, 1888))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Leptosia luciensis (Topsent, 1888))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Dendoryx luciensis Topsent, 1888)
To PESI (from synonym Dendoryx luciensis Topsent, 1888)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Leptolabis luciensis (Topsent, 1888))
To PESI (from synonym Leptosia exilis Topsent, 1892)
To PESI (from synonym Forcepia exilis (Topsent, 1892))
To PESI (from synonym Forcepia luciensis (Topsent, 1888))