Traits taxon details
Agelas conifera (Schmidt, 1870)
164824 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:164824)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of ) Schmidt, O. (1870). Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI.
page(s): 60; pl V fig 2b [details]
page(s): 60; pl V fig 2b [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. Agelas conifera (Schmidt, 1870). Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=164824 on 2025-05-02
Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Agelas conifera (Schmidt, 1870). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=164824 on 2025-05-02
original description
(of ) Schmidt, O. (1870). Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI.
page(s): 60; pl V fig 2b [details]
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Family Agelasidae Verrill, 1907. Pp. 819-823. <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).
page(s): 823 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Parra-Velandia, F.J.; Zea, S.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2014). Reef sponges of the genus <em>Agelas</em> (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the Greater Caribbean. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3794(3): 301-344., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3794.3.1
page(s): 318-320 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Agelasidae Verrill, 1907. Pp. 819-823. <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).
page(s): 823 [details] Available for editors
additional source Lehnert, H. (1993). Die Schwämme von Cozumel (Mexiko). Bestandsaufnahme, kritischer Vergleich taxonomischer Merkmale, und Beschreibung einer neuen Art (The sponges from Cozumel (Mexico). Inventory, critical comparison of taxonomic characters and description of a new species. <em>Acta Biolologica Benrodis.</em> 5: 35-127 (in German, with abstracts in German and English).
page(s): 49-50 [details] Available for editors
additional source Kobluk, D.R.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1989). Cavity dwelling sponges in a southern Caribbean coral reef and their paleontological implications. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 44(3): 1207-1235. [details]
additional source Rützler, K.; Díaz, M.C.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Zea, S.; Smith, K.P.; Alvarez, B.; Wulff, J. (2000). Diversity of sponge fauna in mangrove ponds, Pelican Cays, Belize. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 476: 230-248.
page(s): 235 [details]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (1981). A checklist of the Curaçao sponges (Porifera Demospongiae) including a pictorial key to the more common reef-forms. <em>Verslagen en Technische Gegevens Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoölogie (Zoölogisch Museum) Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 31: 1-39.
page(s): 10-11 [details]
additional source Rützler, K.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Piantoni, C. (2009). Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico. <i>in</i>: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A & M Press, College Station, Texas. 285–313. [details] Available for editors
additional source Muricy, G.; Lopes, D.A.; Hajdu, E; Carvalho, M.S.; Moraes, F.C.; Klautau, M.; Menegola, C.; Pinheiro, U. (2011). Catalogue of Brazilian Porifera. <em>Museu Nacional, Série Livros.</em> 300 pp.
page(s): 38 [details] Available for editors
additional source Lehnert, H.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1996). North Jamaican deep fore-reef sponges. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 46 (4): 53-81.
page(s): 65; fig 54 [details]
additional source Lehnert, H.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1998). Shallow water sponges of Jamaica. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 48 (5): 71-103.
page(s): 81 [details]
additional source Lehnert, H.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1999). More North Jamaican deep fore-reef sponges. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 49 (12): 141-169.
page(s): 154 [details]
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1986). A collection of West Indian Demospongiae (Porifera). In appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the West Indies. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 86: 65-216.
page(s): 108-109; fig 32 C [details] Available for editors
additional source Wiedenmayer, F. (1977). Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. <em>Experientia Supplementum.</em> 28: 1-287, pls 1-43.
page(s): 130-131 [details] Available for editors
additional source Wintermann-Kilian, G.; Kilian, E.F. (1984). Marine Sponges of the Region of Santa Marta (Colombia). Part II. Homosclerophorida, Choristida, Spirophorida, Hadromerida, Axinellida, Halichondrida, Poecilosclerida. <em>Studies on the Neotropical Fauna and Environment.</em> 19(3): 121-135.
page(s): 132 [details] Available for editors
additional source Zea, S. (1987). Esponjas del Caribe Colombiano. (Catálogo Cientifico: Bogotá, Colombia): 1-286. , available online at http://ISBN 958-9068-05-7
page(s): 212-214; fig 77 [details] Available for editors
additional source Alcolado, P.M.; Busutil, L. (2012). Inventaire des spongiaires néritiques du Parc National de La Guadeloupe (Inventario de las esponjas neríticas del Parque Nacional de Guadalupe). <em>Serie Oceanológica.</em> 10, 62-76.
page(s): Table 2 [details] Available for editors
additional source Muricy, G.; Santos, C.P.; Batista, D.; Lopes, D.A.; Pagnoncelli, D.; Monteiro, L.C.; Oliveira, M.V.; Moreira, M.C.F.; Carvalho, M. de S.; Melão, M.; Klautau, M.; Rodriguez, P.R.D.; Costa, R.N.; Silvano, R.G.; Schwientek, S.; Ribeiro, S.M.; Pinheiro, U.S.; Hajdu, E. (2006). Filo Porifera. pp. 109–145 <i>In</i>: Lavrado, H.P. & Ignacio, B.L. (Eds.), Biodiversidade bentônica da região central da Zona Econômica Exclusiva brasileira. Série Livros 18, Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro.
page(s): 141 [details] Available for editors
additional source Vacelet, J. (1990). Les spongiaires. <i>in</i> Le Monde Marin. (ed. Claude Bouchon) pp 16-33. <em>La Grande Encyclopédie de la Caraïbe.</em> Editions Caraïbes, Pointe à Pitre.
page(s): 24 [details] Available for editors
additional source Alcolado, P.M. (2002). Catálogo de las esponjas de Cuba. <em>Avicennia.</em> 15: 53-72. [details] Available for editors
additional source Pérez, T. ; Díaz, M.C.; Ruiz, C.; Cóndor-Luján, B.; Klautau, M.; Hajdu, E.; Lôbo-Hajdu, G.; Zea, S.; Pomponi, S.A.; Thacker, R.W.; Carteron, S.; Tollu, G.; Pouget-Cuvelier, A.; Thélamon, P.; Marechal, J.-P.; Thomas, O.P.; Ereskovsky, A.E.; Vacelet, J.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2017). How a collaborative integrated taxonomic effort has trained new spongiologists and improved knowledge of Martinique Island (French Antilles, eastern Caribbean Sea) marine biodiversity. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 12 (3): e0173859., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173859
page(s): 11 [details]
additional source Ugalde, D.; Fernandez, J.C.C.; Gómez, P.; Lôbo-Hajdu, G.; Simões, N. (2021). An update on the diversity of marine sponges in the southern gulf of Mexico coral reefs. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5031 (1): 001–112., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5031.1.1
page(s): 10 [details] Available for editors
additional source Alvarez, B.; Díaz, M.C.; Laughlin, R.A. (1990). The sponge fauna of a fringing coral reef in Venezuela, I: Composition, distribution and abundance. <em>Pp. 358-366. In: Rützler, K. (ed) New Perspectives in Sponge Biology. 3rd International Sponge Conference 1985 Woods Hole.</em> Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
page(s): Table 1; note: Misspelled as Agelas conifer [details] Available for editors
ecology source Richelle-Maurer, E.; De Kluijver, M.; Feio, S.; Gaudêncio, S.; Gaspar, H.; Gomez, R.; Tavares, R.; Van de Vyver, G.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2003). Localization and ecological significance of oroidin and sceptrin in the Caribbean sponge <i>Agelas conifera</i>. <em>Biochemical Systematics and Ecology.</em> 31 (10): 1073-1091., available online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305197803000723
page(s): 1075 [details] Available for editors
page(s): 60; pl V fig 2b [details]
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Family Agelasidae Verrill, 1907. Pp. 819-823. <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).
page(s): 823 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Parra-Velandia, F.J.; Zea, S.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2014). Reef sponges of the genus <em>Agelas</em> (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the Greater Caribbean. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3794(3): 301-344., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3794.3.1
page(s): 318-320 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Agelasidae Verrill, 1907. Pp. 819-823. <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).
page(s): 823 [details] Available for editors
additional source Lehnert, H. (1993). Die Schwämme von Cozumel (Mexiko). Bestandsaufnahme, kritischer Vergleich taxonomischer Merkmale, und Beschreibung einer neuen Art (The sponges from Cozumel (Mexico). Inventory, critical comparison of taxonomic characters and description of a new species. <em>Acta Biolologica Benrodis.</em> 5: 35-127 (in German, with abstracts in German and English).
page(s): 49-50 [details] Available for editors
additional source Kobluk, D.R.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1989). Cavity dwelling sponges in a southern Caribbean coral reef and their paleontological implications. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 44(3): 1207-1235. [details]
additional source Rützler, K.; Díaz, M.C.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Zea, S.; Smith, K.P.; Alvarez, B.; Wulff, J. (2000). Diversity of sponge fauna in mangrove ponds, Pelican Cays, Belize. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 476: 230-248.
page(s): 235 [details]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (1981). A checklist of the Curaçao sponges (Porifera Demospongiae) including a pictorial key to the more common reef-forms. <em>Verslagen en Technische Gegevens Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoölogie (Zoölogisch Museum) Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 31: 1-39.
page(s): 10-11 [details]
additional source Rützler, K.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Piantoni, C. (2009). Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico. <i>in</i>: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A & M Press, College Station, Texas. 285–313. [details] Available for editors
additional source Muricy, G.; Lopes, D.A.; Hajdu, E; Carvalho, M.S.; Moraes, F.C.; Klautau, M.; Menegola, C.; Pinheiro, U. (2011). Catalogue of Brazilian Porifera. <em>Museu Nacional, Série Livros.</em> 300 pp.
page(s): 38 [details] Available for editors
additional source Lehnert, H.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1996). North Jamaican deep fore-reef sponges. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 46 (4): 53-81.
page(s): 65; fig 54 [details]
additional source Lehnert, H.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1998). Shallow water sponges of Jamaica. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 48 (5): 71-103.
page(s): 81 [details]
additional source Lehnert, H.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1999). More North Jamaican deep fore-reef sponges. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 49 (12): 141-169.
page(s): 154 [details]
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1986). A collection of West Indian Demospongiae (Porifera). In appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the West Indies. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 86: 65-216.
page(s): 108-109; fig 32 C [details] Available for editors
additional source Wiedenmayer, F. (1977). Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. <em>Experientia Supplementum.</em> 28: 1-287, pls 1-43.
page(s): 130-131 [details] Available for editors
additional source Wintermann-Kilian, G.; Kilian, E.F. (1984). Marine Sponges of the Region of Santa Marta (Colombia). Part II. Homosclerophorida, Choristida, Spirophorida, Hadromerida, Axinellida, Halichondrida, Poecilosclerida. <em>Studies on the Neotropical Fauna and Environment.</em> 19(3): 121-135.
page(s): 132 [details] Available for editors
additional source Zea, S. (1987). Esponjas del Caribe Colombiano. (Catálogo Cientifico: Bogotá, Colombia): 1-286. , available online at http://ISBN 958-9068-05-7
page(s): 212-214; fig 77 [details] Available for editors
additional source Alcolado, P.M.; Busutil, L. (2012). Inventaire des spongiaires néritiques du Parc National de La Guadeloupe (Inventario de las esponjas neríticas del Parque Nacional de Guadalupe). <em>Serie Oceanológica.</em> 10, 62-76.
page(s): Table 2 [details] Available for editors
additional source Muricy, G.; Santos, C.P.; Batista, D.; Lopes, D.A.; Pagnoncelli, D.; Monteiro, L.C.; Oliveira, M.V.; Moreira, M.C.F.; Carvalho, M. de S.; Melão, M.; Klautau, M.; Rodriguez, P.R.D.; Costa, R.N.; Silvano, R.G.; Schwientek, S.; Ribeiro, S.M.; Pinheiro, U.S.; Hajdu, E. (2006). Filo Porifera. pp. 109–145 <i>In</i>: Lavrado, H.P. & Ignacio, B.L. (Eds.), Biodiversidade bentônica da região central da Zona Econômica Exclusiva brasileira. Série Livros 18, Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro.
page(s): 141 [details] Available for editors
additional source Vacelet, J. (1990). Les spongiaires. <i>in</i> Le Monde Marin. (ed. Claude Bouchon) pp 16-33. <em>La Grande Encyclopédie de la Caraïbe.</em> Editions Caraïbes, Pointe à Pitre.
page(s): 24 [details] Available for editors
additional source Alcolado, P.M. (2002). Catálogo de las esponjas de Cuba. <em>Avicennia.</em> 15: 53-72. [details] Available for editors
additional source Pérez, T. ; Díaz, M.C.; Ruiz, C.; Cóndor-Luján, B.; Klautau, M.; Hajdu, E.; Lôbo-Hajdu, G.; Zea, S.; Pomponi, S.A.; Thacker, R.W.; Carteron, S.; Tollu, G.; Pouget-Cuvelier, A.; Thélamon, P.; Marechal, J.-P.; Thomas, O.P.; Ereskovsky, A.E.; Vacelet, J.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2017). How a collaborative integrated taxonomic effort has trained new spongiologists and improved knowledge of Martinique Island (French Antilles, eastern Caribbean Sea) marine biodiversity. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 12 (3): e0173859., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173859
page(s): 11 [details]
additional source Ugalde, D.; Fernandez, J.C.C.; Gómez, P.; Lôbo-Hajdu, G.; Simões, N. (2021). An update on the diversity of marine sponges in the southern gulf of Mexico coral reefs. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5031 (1): 001–112., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5031.1.1
page(s): 10 [details] Available for editors
additional source Alvarez, B.; Díaz, M.C.; Laughlin, R.A. (1990). The sponge fauna of a fringing coral reef in Venezuela, I: Composition, distribution and abundance. <em>Pp. 358-366. In: Rützler, K. (ed) New Perspectives in Sponge Biology. 3rd International Sponge Conference 1985 Woods Hole.</em> Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
page(s): Table 1; note: Misspelled as Agelas conifer [details] Available for editors
ecology source Richelle-Maurer, E.; De Kluijver, M.; Feio, S.; Gaudêncio, S.; Gaspar, H.; Gomez, R.; Tavares, R.; Van de Vyver, G.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2003). Localization and ecological significance of oroidin and sceptrin in the Caribbean sponge <i>Agelas conifera</i>. <em>Biochemical Systematics and Ecology.</em> 31 (10): 1073-1091., available online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305197803000723
page(s): 1075 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (18 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Agelas conifera)
To GenBank (69 nucleotides; 50 proteins)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas conifera)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas conifera)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas conifera)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas conifera)
To The Sponge Guide
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (13 records)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Agelas conifera)
To GenBank (69 nucleotides; 50 proteins)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas conifera)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas conifera)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas conifera)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas conifera)
To The Sponge Guide
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (13 records)
