WoRMS name details
Spongelia dubia Hyatt, 1877
193566 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:193566)
unaccepted (genus transfer)
Species
Spongelia Nardo, 1847 accepted as Dysidea Johnston, 1842
- Variety Spongelia dubia var. excavata Hyatt, 1877 accepted as Dysidea excavata (Hyatt, 1877) (genus transfer)
- Variety Spongelia dubia var. foraminosa Hyatt, 1877 accepted as Dysidea excavata (Hyatt, 1877) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
- Variety Spongelia dubia var. mollior sensu Hyatt, 1877 accepted as Dysidea mollior (Hyatt, 1877) (genus transfer)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 534 [details]
page(s): 534 [details]
Type locality contained in Floridian
type locality contained in Floridian [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. Spongelia dubia Hyatt, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=193566 on 2025-04-29
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Nomenclature
original description
Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 534 [details]
page(s): 534 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Syntype MCZ 141739, geounit Floridian [details]
From editor or global species database
Validity In addition to five specimens of the typical variety Spongelia dubia Hyatt, 1877, from Biscayne Bay, Florida (syntypes MCZ 141739, PORa-7260 and 7263, approximate coordinates 25.565833°N 80.216389°W) and the Bahamas (specimens listed in the online MCZ database) Hyatt described three varieties of Spongelia dubia, varieties excavata (q.v.), foraminosa (q.v.), and mollior (q.v.). Spongelia dubia Hyatt, 1877, described as a black Dysidea-like sponge, was declared unrecognizable by De Laubenfels (1948: 146), but he suggested it could perhaps belong to the Red Sea species D. nigra Keller, 1889: 238, currently a junior synonym of Hyrtios erectus (Keller, 1889: 340). There are no known black Dysidea species recorded from Florida or the wider Central West Atlantic region, but there is a black Hyrtios, viz. H. proteus Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864. However, the photo of the type specimen (Hyatt, 1877: plate 17 fig. 9, cf. Fig. 2A) is not typical for the genus Dysidea nor for the genus Hyrtios, and thus it is suspected to belong to a different, so far unrecognized, genus. For the time being it is assigned to Dysidea dubia (Hyatt, 1877) as a taxon inquirendum until it may have been classified properly. [details]
