Marine Species Traits - Ciocalypta Bowerbank, 1862

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Ciocalypta Bowerbank, 1862

Ciocalypta penicillus

AphiaID

131804 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131804)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Ciocalypta penicillus Bowerbank, 1862 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Halichondriidae Gray, 1867

Original name

Ciocalypta Bowerbank, 1862

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Species Ciocalypta aciculata Carter, 1885
Species Ciocalypta aderma (Lévi & Vacelet, 1958)
Species Ciocalypta alba Carvalho, Carraro, Lerner & Hajdu, 2003
Species Ciocalypta alleni de Laubenfels, 1936
Species Ciocalypta bustamanti Sim-Smith, Hickman Jr & Kelly, 2021
Species Ciocalypta carballoi Vacelet, Bitar, Carteron, Zibrowius & Pérez, 2007
Species Ciocalypta colorata Gutekunst, Müller, Pohl, Brümmer, Malik, Fawzi, Erpenbeck & Lehnert, 2018
Species Ciocalypta digitata (Dendy, 1905)
Species Ciocalypta expanda Tanita & Hoshino, 1989
Species Ciocalypta gibbsi (Wells, Wells & Gray, 1960)
Species Ciocalypta gracilis Topsent, 1897
Species Ciocalypta heterostyla Hentschel, 1912
Species Ciocalypta hyalina (Pulitzer-Finali, 1978)
Species Ciocalypta hyaloderma Ridley & Dendy, 1886
Species Ciocalypta magnastyla Arroyo, Hajdu, Willenz & Cóndor-Luján, 2020
Species Ciocalypta massalis (Carter, 1883)
Species Ciocalypta melichlora Sollas, 1902
Species Ciocalypta microstrongylata Vacelet, Vasseur & Lévi, 1976
Species Ciocalypta minuta Rezvoi, 1931
Species Ciocalypta parnaiba Annunziata, Nascimento & Pinheiro, 2024
Species Ciocalypta penicillus Bowerbank, 1862
Species Ciocalypta polymastia (Lendenfeld, 1888)
Species Ciocalypta porrecta (Topsent, 1928)
Species Ciocalypta rutila Sollas, 1902
Species Ciocalypta sasuensis Kang & Sim, 2008
Species Ciocalypta simplex Thiele, 1900
Species Ciocalypta stalagmites Hentschel, 1912
Species Ciocalypta tyleri Bowerbank, 1873
Species Ciocalypta vansoesti (Hooper, Cook, Hobbs & Kennedy, 1997)
Species Ciocalypta weltneri Arnesen, 1920

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Bowerbank, J.S. (1862). On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part III On the Generic Characters, the Specific Characters, and on the Method of Examination. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 152(2): 1087-1135, pls LXXII-LXXIV., available online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1862.0044 [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. Ciocalypta Bowerbank, 1862. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131804 on 2026-03-21

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Ciocalypta Bowerbank, 1862. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131804 on 2026-03-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2006-01-03 18:48:18Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2007-08-27 08:53:24Z

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van Soest, Rob W.M.

2018-09-10 09:37:12Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2020-12-16 10:32:25Z

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van Soest, Rob W.M.

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original description Bowerbank, J.S. (1862). On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part III On the Generic Characters, the Specific Characters, and on the Method of Examination. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 152(2): 1087-1135, pls LXXII-LXXIV., available online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1862.0044 [details]

basis of record Bowerbank, J.S. (1874). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1871265 [details]

additional source Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-816. In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_84 [details] Available for editors

additional source 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

additional source Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002[2004]). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-815. In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors

additional source 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]